The BFT lens: Tendermint
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Today I am going to overview a new algorithmic foundation called ‘HotStuff the Linear, Optimal-Resilience, One-Message BFT Devil’ (in short, HotStuff), devel...
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In the early 2000’s, a group of activists advocating the wide-spread use of cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies were engaging over the `cypherpun...
The Greek Tragedy of Industrial Computing Research Labs
Authors: Guy Singer and Dahlia Malkhi
Flexible Paxos
Summer was buzzing with intern activity at the VMware Research Group (VRG), working with all the research team and with David Tennenhouse, Chief Research Of...