[Cryptography] Proposal of a fair contract signing protocol

[Miles Fidelman]

On 6/21/16 6:14 PM, mok-kong shen wrote:

> Am 21.06.2016 um 18:50 schrieb Christian Huitema:
>> On Monday, June 20, 2016 3:24 PM, mok-kong shen wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 20.06.2016 um 05:05 schrieb Peter Fairbrother:
>>>> On 19/06/16 17:51, mok-kong shen wrote:
>>>> [..]
>>>>
>>>>> [Addendum 19.06.2016] There are literatures which claim (if I have
>>>>> not
>>>>> misinterpreted) that protocols of our genre are impossible.
>>>>
>>>> They are impossible.
>>>>
>>>> This is known as the two generals problem:
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
>>>>
>>>
If we're including negotiation in the process, then we're talking about 
the more general case of the Byzantine Generals Problem - 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance (also unsolvable)

Miles Fidelman

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