The honest minority assumption posits that a distributed system can maintain its security and integrity as long as a minority of its participants act honestly. This principle contrasts with the more common honest majority assumption found in many consensus protocols. It implies resilience even when a significant portion of the network is malicious.
Context
The honest minority assumption is a critical concept in the design of certain advanced cryptographic protocols, particularly those employing zero-knowledge proofs or specific forms of Verifiable Delay Functions. Achieving security under this weaker assumption offers greater robustness against coordinated attacks or collusion. Research continually aims to construct protocols that operate securely with fewer honest participants.
Research demonstrates a scalable distributed randomness beacon by enforcing verifiable inclusion of all entropy contributions using insertion-secure accumulators.
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