Merkle tree
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merkle-tree-206-14881047
title:
Merkle tree
text:
In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every "leaf" node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data block, and every node that is not a leaf is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes. A hash tree allows efficient and secure verification of the contents of a large data structure. A hash tree is a generalization of a hash list and a hash chain. Demonstrating that a leaf node is a part of a given binary hash tree req
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of data structure
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
date created:
2005-08-20T12:32:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T20:42:35Z
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