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> production distributed systems should handle Byzantine failures I don't think this is true, at least not as stated. You should certainly be thinking about mo
by neilc 12y ago
> production distributed systems should handle Byzantine failures
I don't think this is true, at least not as stated. You should certainly be thinking about more than crash-stop failures, but full-blown Byzantine fault tolerance is rarely warranted in practice. Empirically, the number of systems that use non-Byzantine vs. Byzantine agreement is probably on the order of 100:1.
- ahelwer 12y agoGood point. Depends on your threat model. Most systems can get away without full-blown Byzantine fault tolerance. You're probably right about the 100:1 ratio for production systems.