EBFT: Efficient BFT Consensus through Shortcut Replies - Qingsheng Lei; Yongjun Xia; Qitao Guo; Rui Hao; Xiaohai Dai; Weiqi Dai (IEEE Intl Conf on Parallel & Distributed Processing with Applications, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Sustainable Computing & Communications, Social Computing & Networking, ISPA/BDCloud/SocialCom/SustainCom, 2023, Wuhan, China, December 21-24, 2023, 2023)