Glossary term

Byzantine fault tolerance

A consensus mechanism that offers secure validation across a distributed set of data, stemming from information propagation theory labelled as the Byzantine Generals problem.

  • Updated August 17, 2018
  • First published April 25, 2018
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A consensus mechanism that offers secure validation across a distributed set of data, stemming from information propagation theory labelled as the Byzantine Generals problem.