The Byzantine Generals Problem

The work

TitleThe Byzantine Generals Problem
AuthorsLeslie Lamport; Robert Shostak; Marshall Pease
Typearticle
Year1982
Citekeylamport1982byzantine

Where it appeared

Published inACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Volume4
Issue3
Pages382--401

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/357172.357176

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Landing pagehttps://doi.org/10.1145/357172.357176
Free full texthttps://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/357172.357176

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@article{lamport1982byzantine,
  title = {The Byzantine Generals Problem},
  author = {Leslie Lamport and Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease},
  year = {1982},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems},
  volume = {4},
  number = {3},
  pages = {382--401},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi = {10.1145/357172.357176},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/357172.357176},
}

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