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Consensus in the Presence of Partial Synchrony

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Authors: Cynthia Dwork, Nancy Lynch and Larry Stockmeyer
Date: 1988
Publisher: Cynthia Dwork, Nancy Lynch and Larry Stockmeyer
Version: Source cited by the 1988 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0147
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
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Safety can hold with no timing assumption. Liveness can wait for a period, after some unknown instant, when messages arrive within a bound.

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Dwork, C., Lynch, N., & Stockmeyer, L. (1988). Consensus in the Presence of Partial Synchrony. Cynthia Dwork, Nancy Lynch and Larry Stockmeyer. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm88.pdf

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@techreport{partialsynchrony1988,
  title = {Consensus in the Presence of Partial Synchrony},
  author = {Cynthia Dwork, Nancy Lynch and Larry Stockmeyer},
  year = {1988},
  institution = {Cynthia Dwork, Nancy Lynch and Larry Stockmeyer},
  url = {https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/Lynch/jacm88.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/partial-synchrony}
}

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