Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults

1980 · Journal of the ACM · 2,382 citations · 3 from inside this corpus

Marshall C. Pease, Robert E. Shostak, Leslie Lamport

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems	1978	13,242
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems	1983	13,151

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
The Byzantine Generals Problem	1982	6,037
On the security of public key protocols	1983	5,827
Completeness theorems for non-cryptographic fault-tolerant distributed computation	1988	2,542

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Topics

Cryptography and Data Security	Computer Science
Cooperative Communication and Network Coding	Computer Science
Wireless Communication Security Techniques	Engineering

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