Peiyao Sheng: BFT Protocol Forensics | Chainlink Research Reports

BFT Protocol Forensics by Peiyao Sheng, from the University of Illinois

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.06785.pdf

BFT Protocol Forensics mathematically formalizes the study of forensic
support for Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols. The authors use distributed techniques to identify several malicious replicas and find that forensic support of BFT protocols depends heavily on minor implementation details that do not impact the protocol’s security or complexity.

Peiyao Sheng is a Doctoral student at the University of Illinois in Computer Science studying consensus protocols using externally valid research design.

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00:00 Introducing Peiyao Sheng
01:14 BFT Protocol Introduction
02:10 Forensics
03:30 Intuition For Forensics
04:31 Case Study: HotStuff
07:21 Cross View Attacks
11:19 Strong Forensic Support
11:57 Small Distinctions Have Outsized Impact
14:25 No Forensic Support For Algorand
17:02 What Impairs Forensic Support?
17:24 Transition Certificate
19:46 Trade-Offs For Strong Forensic Support
22:02 Analytic Indicators Detecting Attacks
23:03 Scalability Implications
25:30 Findings On Proof-of-Stake Blockchains
28:48 Forensic Support To Investigate Attacks