Meanings
nounByzantine attack (plural Byzantine attacks)
plural Byzantine attacks
- computer securityA type of attack involving multiple nodes collaborating to disrupt the network.
Finally, the Byzantine attack raises the problem of reaching a consensus among nodes when an unknown number of them maybe traitors.
2005, Jie Wu, Handbook on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 8351 more example
Four main Byzantine attacks include “Black Holes,” “Flood Rushing,” “Wormholes,” and “Overlay Network Wormholes” [10].
2010, Yang Xiao, Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 125
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