Christian Cachin, Idit Keidar, et al.
Information Processing Letters
A group of mutually trusting clients outsources a computation to a remote server, which they do not fully trust and that may be subject to attacks. The clients do not communicate with each other and would like to verify the correctness of the remote computation and the consistency of the server's responses. This paper presents the Conflict-free Operation verification Protocol (COP) that ensures linearizability when the server is correct and preserves fork-linearizability otherwise. Clients that observe each other's operations are consistent and their operations are linearizable. If the server forks two clients by hiding an operation, however, they never again see operations of each other. COP is wait-free in the sense that when executed with a correct server, non-conflicting operations can run without waiting for other clients. The paper gives a precise model for the guarantees of COP and includes a formal analysis that these are achieved.
Christian Cachin, Idit Keidar, et al.
Information Processing Letters
Christian Cachin, Reto Strobl
PODC 2004
Rüdiger Kapitza, Johannes Behl, et al.
EuroSys 2012
Christian Cachin, Klaus Kursawe, et al.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)