Confused Deputy Problem

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Is there a list of named information security problems like "confused debuty"?

Let's see.

- Byzantine General's Problem (Consensus in a distributed system)

- Part time Parliament (Paxos Algorithm also reaching consensus in a distributed system)

- Confused Deputy

- Gossip Protocol(Quickly spread state in a distributed system)

- Vector Clocks ( Determine a partial ordering of events in a distributed system)

Many of these concepts were given clever names given by Leslie Lamport who did a lot of Distributed Systems Research.