> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] announcing Allmydata Tahoe > > > There is a Merkle Tree. A verifier is given the root of the Merkle Tree > and > can thus validate the correctness of any block given only that block and > the > necessary Merkle-Tree-Uncle-Nodes. To validate every single block would > still > require downloading all the blocks, but perhaps a verifier could randomly > sample blocks and thus be satisfied.
Wow, the project looks really great! I'm curious why you chose to use Merkle trees, however, instead of a simple hash list. What's the advantage of the additional complexity? -david _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
