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Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication (BFT) has reached a reasonable level of maturity as an appealing, software-based technique, to building robust distributed services with commodity hardware. The current tendency however is to implement a new BFT protocol from scratch for each new application and network environment. This is notoriously difficult. Modern BFT protocols require each more than 20.000 lines of sophisticated C code and proving their correctness involves an entire PhD. Maintainning and testing each new protocol seems just impossible.
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Guerraoui, R. (2008). The Next 700 BFT Protocols. In: Baker, T.P., Bui, A., Tixeuil, S. (eds) Principles of Distributed Systems. OPODIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5401. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92221-6_1
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