A more general implementation of Lamport's Byzantine Consensus algorithm in Python
Marton Trencseni - Tue 12 August 2025 • Tagged with lamport, byzantine, generals, python, flask, distributed
This follow-up factors Lamport’s Byzantine Generals algorithm into a generalized class that's independent of I/O and payloads. Any node can initiate a round (be "king"), values can be arbitrary strings, and multiple rounds can run concurrently.
