Castro, M. & Liskov, B. (1999). Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. In Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘99), New Orleans. USENIX Association. Journal version: Castro & Liskov (2002), ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 20(4): 398–461, doi:10.1145/571637.571640.
Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1356).
Why this is here
A41 of the exchange called it “a central reference” for the owner’s U41 question of governance under compromised constituents, and noted its limit: “A Byzantine protocol generally takes the specification of correct behavior as given.” Bears on CLAIM-359 and CASE-108. The anthology holds Byzantine-robust learning (ANTH-LIT-257, ANTH-LIT-344), not this distributed-systems paper.