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International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
Abstract
Broadcast is a fundamental primitive in distributed computing. It allows a sender to consistently distribute a message among n recipients. The seminal result of Pease et al. [JACM\u2780] shows that in a complete network of synchronous bilateral channels, broadcast is achievable if and only if the number of corruptions is bounded by t<n/3. To overcome this bound, a fascinating line of works, Fitzi and Maurer [STOC\u2700], Considine et al. [JC\u2705] and Raykov [ICALP\u2715], proposed strengthening the communication network by assuming partial synchronous broadcast channels, which guarantee consistency among a subset of recipients.
We extend this line of research to the asynchronous setting. We consider reliable broadcast protocols assuming a communication network which provides each subset of b parties with reliable broadcast channels. A natural question is to investigate the trade-off between the size b and the corruption threshold t. We answer this question by showing feasibility and impossibility results:
1) A reliable broadcast protocol that: For 3β€bβ€4, is secure up to t4 even, is secure up to t4 odd, is secure up to t<(bβ1bβ3βn+bβ16β) corruptions.
2) A nonstop reliable broadcast, where parties are guaranteed to obtain output as in reliable broadcast but may need to run forever, secure up to t<b+1bβ1βn corruptions.
3) There is no protocol for (nonstop) reliable broadcast secure up to tβ₯b+1bβ1βn corruptions, implying that the reliable broadcast protocol is asymptotically optimal, and the nonstop reliable broadcast protocol is optimal
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