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Merkle trees

Merkle trees is the plural of Merkle tree.

Meaning of Merkle tree

Noun

Merkle tree (plural Merkle trees)

  1. A binary hash tree.
    • 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...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...

Questions about Merkle trees

What is Merkle trees the plural of?
Merkle trees is the plural of Merkle tree.

Words near Merkle trees in the dictionary

  1. merkins
  2. merkland
  3. merklands
  4. Merkle
  5. Merkle tree
  6. Merkle trees
  7. Merkle-Patricia tree
  8. Merkles
  9. Merkley
  10. Merkleys
  11. Merkman

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