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Yet more tangentially related: it is an instance of the Byzantine Agreement problem, which is unsolvable in general: no finite protocol guarantees consistent st
by praptak 13y ago
Yet more tangentially related: it is an instance of the Byzantine Agreement problem, which is unsolvable in general: no finite protocol guarantees consistent state in the presence of packet loss.
- aphyr 13y agoYep, FLP applies here--but if a network works long enough to complete a round eventually, e3PC or similar can succeed. Pretty much all real-world networks do that. :)