Difference between revisions of "IC consensus layer"

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-The job consensus layer of the IC is to order transaction requests so that all replicas in a subnet will process
+Please see [https://internetcomputer.org/how-it-works/consensus/ How Consensus Layer works]
-transaction requests in the same order.
-There are many protocols in the literature for this problem.
-The IC uses a new consensus protocol, which is described here at a high level.
-For more details, see the paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1330 (in particular, Protocol ICC1 in that paper).
-The IC consensus protocol is design to be
-* extremely simple, and
-* robust (performance degrades gracefully when some replicas are malicious).
-As discussed [[The Internet Computer for Computer Scientists|elsewhere]]