Merkle tree traversal in log space and time

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3027, Issue , 2004, Pages 541-554

  Szydlo, Michael ^a  

^a RSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amortization; Authentication path; Binary tree; Fractal traversal; Merkle tree; Pebbling; Tail zipping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTHENTICATION; BINARY TREES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DEPRECIATION; HASH FUNCTIONS;

AMORTIZATION; MERKLE TREE TRAVERSAL; MERKLE TREES; PEBBLING; SPACE AND TIME; SPACE EFFICIENCIES; TAIL ZIPPING; TREE LEAVES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 35048813651     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24676-3_32     Document Type: Article

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