Byzantine Agreements in Secure Communication

Byzantine Agreements were first formally proposed by Lamport [8], for use in finding faulty processors in distrubuted computer networks. In this article we will use the process of finding faults to uncover traitors in secure communications networks. Maintaining reliability in trusted networks is an important application of Byzantine Agreements. Thus by introducing the fundamentals of the Byzantine Generals problem and its generalized Agreement protocol we will establish a game theoretic solution to the cryptographic problem of secure communications networks.