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Lamport, Shostak and Pease analyzed agreement when some participants send inconsistent or malicious messages, with different results for oral and authenticated messages.
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The familiar more-than-two-thirds loyal requirement belongs to the stated oral-message model. Timing, delivery and authentication assumptions matter; agreement does not make the agreed scientific claim true.
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- The Byzantine Generals Problem
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Leslie Lamport; Robert Shostak; Marshall Pease
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Byzantine agreement and its fault thresholds
Lamport, Shostak and Pease analyzed agreement when some participants send inconsistent or malicious messages, with different results for oral and authenticated messages.
Scientific scope
The familiar more-than-two-thirds loyal requirement belongs to the stated oral-message model. Timing, delivery and authentication assumptions matter; agreement does not make the agreed scientific claim true.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Leslie Lamport; Robert Shostak; Marshall Pease
Source paper byline retained, including repeated label positions. Names are not verified unique identities or measurements of individual effort.