It is well-known that n players, connected only by pairwise secure channels, can achieve unconditional broadcast if and only if the number t of cheaters satisfies t < n/3. In this paper, we show that this bound can be improved - at the sole price that the adversary can prevent successful completion
of the protocol, but in which case all players will have agreement about this fact. Moreover, a first time slot during which
the adversary forgets to cheat can be reliably detected and exploited in order to allow for future broadcasts with t < n/2. This even allows for secure multi-party computation with t < n/2 after the first detection of such a time slot.
Key words Byzantine agreement - multi-party computation - unconditional security