Towards Formal Verification of HotStuff-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus in Agda: Extended Version

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العنوان: Towards Formal Verification of HotStuff-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus in Agda: Extended Version
المؤلفون: Carr, Harold, Jenkins, Christopher, Moir, Mark, Miraldo, Victor Cacciari, Silva, Lisandra
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing, Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science
الوصف: LibraBFT is a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol based on HotStuff. We present an abstract model of the protocol underlying HotStuff / LibraBFT, and formal, machine-checked proofs of their core correctness (safety) property and an extended condition that enables non-participating parties to verify committed results. (Liveness properties would be proved for specific implementations, not for the abstract model presented in this paper.) A key contribution is precisely defining assumptions about the behavior of honest peers, in an abstract way, independent of any particular implementation. Therefore, our work is an important step towards proving correctness of an entire class of concrete implementations, without repeating the hard work of proving correctness of the underlying protocol. The abstract proofs are for a single configuration (epoch); extending these proofs across configuration changes is future work. Our models and proofs are expressed in Agda, and are available in open source.
Comment: 23 pages, 1 figure, extended version of version to be published in 14th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2022)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14711
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2203.14711
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv