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PeerReview: practical accountability for distributed systems
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We describe PeerReview, a system that provides accountability in distributed systems. PeerReview ensures that Byzantine faults whose effects are observed by a correct node are eventually detected and irrefutably linked to a faulty node. At the same time, PeerReview ensures that a correct node can always defend itself against false accusations. These guarantees are particularly important for systems that span multiple administrative domains, which may not trust each other.PeerReview works by maintaining a secure record of the messages sent and received by each node. The record isused to automatically detect when a node's behavior deviates from that of a given reference implementation, thus exposing faulty nodes. PeerReview is widely applicable: it only requires that a correct node's actions are deterministic, that nodes can sign messages, and that each node is periodically checked by a correct node. We demonstrate that PeerReview is practical by applying it to three different types of distributed systems: a network filesystem, a peer-to-peer system, and an overlay multicast system.
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- Authors
- Haeberlen, A., Kouznetsov, P., & Druschel, P.
- Venue
- Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2007-10-14
- Pages
- 175-188
- OpenAlex
- W2116021422
- Cited by
- 337
- References
- 54
- FWCI
- 18.10
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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