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Quorum, Signatures, and Overlays

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While all the notions described in this appendix are not specific to distributed computing, they are briefly presented here for completeness, and allow the reader to have a better understanding of them. They concern the notion of quorums, digital signatures, and network overlays.

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Raynal, M. (2018). Quorum, Signatures, and Overlays. In: Fault-Tolerant Message-Passing Distributed Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94141-7_20

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