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Merkle tree en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after American computer scientist Ralph Merkle (1952–), who patented it in 1979.

Meanings

1. A binary hash tree.
   • 2001, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Mobile Agent Route Protection through Hash-Based Mechanisms, C. Pandu Rangan, Cunsheng Ding (editors), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2001: 2nd International Conference, Proceedings, Volume 2, Springer, LNCS 2247, page 17, The second solution uses Merkle trees and minimizes the cost of route protection by the agent owner, so that a single digital signature suffices to protect the whole route; for hosts along the route, the verification cost is similar to the cost of previous schemes in the literature, namely one digital signature verification per route step.
   • 2004, Michael Szydlo, Merkle Tree Traversal in Log Space and Time, Christian Cachin, Jan Camenisch (editors), Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2004: International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3027, page 541, Merkle trees have found many uses in theoretical cryptographic constructions, having been specifically designed so that a leaf value can be verified with respect to a publicly known root value and the authentication data of the leaf.
   • In order to support dynamic data operations, the Merkle Tree is made dynamic by making use of relative index. 2015, Puonam M. Pardeshi, Bharat Tidke, “Improvement of Data Integrity and Data Dynamics for Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing”, in J. K. Mandal, Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Manas Kumar Sanyal, Partha Pratim Sarkar, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, editors, Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference, Volume 1, Springer, page 279:

Forms

Deriveds

Merkle-Patricia tree · Verkle tree

Translations (5)

cmn 墨克樹 /墨克树 (binary hash tree) · fr arbre de Merkle (binary hash tree) · cmn 默克爾樹 /默克尔树 (binary hash tree) · fi Merkle-puu (binary hash tree) · bg дърво на Меркел (binary hash tree)