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Defined a binary hash-tree authentication method in which a compact root and logarithmic-size authentication path verify a selected leaf without storing every item.
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The record is Merkle’s 1979 tree-authentication construction in the certified-signature work. Later terminology, variants, distributed-ledger uses and independent applications are separate.
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Ralph C. Merkle
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Merkle: tree authentication
Defined a binary hash-tree authentication method in which a compact root and logarithmic-size authentication path verify a selected leaf without storing every item.
Scientific scope
The record is Merkle’s 1979 tree-authentication construction in the certified-signature work. Later terminology, variants, distributed-ledger uses and independent applications are separate.
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People and systems
Ralph C. Merkle
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.