This document describes the designs of a generic distributed certification authority and of a trusted party for optimistic fair exchange that are based on fault-tolerant middleware for service replication. It also discusses other uses of the replication middleware for implementing trusted services. It may serve as a blueprint for building generic trusted third-party services that use the state-machine replication approach.
By: Christian Cachin (editor), Klaus Kursawe and Jonathan A. Poritz
Published in: RZ3394 in 2002
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