partition

German translation: Spaltung

15:09 Sep 30, 2019

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Tech/Engineering - Computers: Systems, Networks / Blockchain/Kryptowährung

English term or phrase: partition

***Partition Resilient*** Against Network Attacks

Any decentralized system is susceptible to a network attack in which an adversary targets the communication links between users, making it difficult or impossible for users to interact. An adversary could ***partition the network*** into isolated pieces, so that members of one piece can only communicate with each other but not with members of other pieces. During a ***network partition***, the network is completely asynchronous and the adversary has total control over who receives which messages and when. If the ***partition*** lasts long enough and the underlying blockchain didn't take this into consideration in its design, then the adversary may be able to convince different groups of users to accept different blocks at the same height in the blockchain. As a result, contradicting transactions will be accepted by different users, allowing the adversary to double-spend their money.

By contrast, during a ***network partition*** in XXX, the adversary is never able to convince two honest users to accept two different blocks for the same round. This is true even when the ***partition*** may last for an indefinite amount of time and nobody knows when it will be resolved. XXX’s chain never forks and users’ balances remain secure. At most, one block can be certified and written to the chain in a given round. Accordingly, all transactions are final in XXX. Once a block appears, users can rely on the transactions it contains immediately and they can be confident that the block will forever be part of the chain, which means the assets they receive are safe.

In addition, although no blockchain can guarantee that blocks are written to the chain during a ***partition***, XXX is able to recover shortly after the ***partition*** is resolved and guarantees that new blocks will be generated at the same speed as before the ***partition***. After a set of XXX nodes sees no progress for a while (roughly a little more time than it takes to agree on one block), the nodes enter ***partition recovery mode***. In this state, besides continuing the consensus protocol, the nodes are periodically sending out recovery messages. During a ***partition***, these messages are not propagated properly. However, these messages are quickly propagated once the ***partition*** has healed, and when a required threshold of messages is accumulated, the states of the nodes are realigned and the blockchain continues to move forward. This allows XXX to recover almost instantly from ***partitions***.

Ich hab es erstmal mit „Spaltung“ übersetzt. Findet ihr das ok? Wobei sich der Begriff „partition“ teilweise mit „hard fork“ zu überschneiden scheint.

Zu „partition resilient“ und „partition recvery mode” werde ich noch separate Fragen stellen.

Olaf Reibedanz KudoZ activity Questions: 10041 (2 open) (5 without valid answers) (115 closed without grading) Answers: 3309 Colombia
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German translation:Spaltung

Explanation:
Ich würde den Begriff "Partitionieren" vermeiden, gerade weil er im Deutschen so mit dem Partitionieren von Festplatten verbunden ist und Leser vermutlich zunächst an für Netzwerke freigegebene Partitionen o.ä. denken würden (wie ja auch einige der Kommentatoren hier). "Spaltung", wie du gesagt hast, würde ich als informierter Laie eher richtig verstehen und es trifft den Kern der Sache - die Blockchain wird aufgespalten und neue Informationen in einem Strang tauchen im anderen Strang nicht auf.

Der Begriff "fork" klingt für mich zu endgültig und nicht genug danach, dass hier ein vorübergehender feindlicher Eingriff stattfindet. Ein fork ist für mich von langer Hand vorbereitet und soll aus einem Projekt zwei unterschiedliche machen.

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Larissa Hanko
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Local time: 11:44

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Danke an alle! Ich werde bei "Spaltung" bleiben.
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3 +1

Partitionierung

Iris Schmerda

4 -1

Partition

gofink

Spaltung

Larissa Hanko

3 -1

partition partitionen

Francesca Rago

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partition partitionen

Explanation:
eine partition partitionen

Francesca Rago
Italy
Local time: 11:44
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Italian

47 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Partitionierung

Explanation:
Erscheint mir in diesem Kontext angebracht, und wird auch auf vielen Seiten zu den Themen Informatik, Computersysteme etc. verwendet.

Reference: http://dozent.maruweb.de/material/dateisystem.shtml
https://www.msxfaq.de/netzwerk/grundlagen/npar.htm

Iris Schmerda
France
Local time: 11:44
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German
PRO pts in category: 20

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peer agreement (net): -1

Partition

Explanation:
recover deleted files from NTFS partitions = Dateien von NTFS-Partitionen … wiederherstellen - see https://www.shareware4u.de/en/kats/system_utilities_backup_r...

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Note added at 1 hr (2019-09-30 16:53:10 GMT)
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***network partition*** = Netzwerkpartition - see Eine Netzwerkpartition bezieht sich Zerlegung in relativ unabhängig zu vernetzen Subnetze für ihre getrennte Optimierung - see https://de.qwertyu.wiki/wiki/Network_partition?ddexp4attempt...

gofink
Austria
Local time: 11:44
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 78

1 day 20 hrs confidence:

Spaltung

Larissa Hanko
Germany
Local time: 11:44
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German
PRO pts in category: 4

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Danke an alle! Ich werde bei "Spaltung" bleiben.

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