Paper 2024/677 Asynchronous Consensus without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography Sisi Duan, Tsinghua University Shengqi Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology Atsuki Momose, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ling Ren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Victor Shoup, Offchain Labs Abstract Byzantine consensus is a fundamental building block in distributed cryptographic problems. Despite decades of research, most existing asynchronous consensus protocols require a stro...