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They could publish a hash of the whole existing tree regularly.
by glomph 8y ago
They could publish a hash of the whole existing tree regularly.
- lisper 8y agoExactly. After every submission in fact.
- Moodles 8y agoWell no, they’d have to publish all reports which most companies don’t like doing because it makes them look very bad.
- glomph 8y agoThey wouldn't have to by the nature of how a Merkel tree works.
- Moodles 8y agoCould you elaborate precisely how this scheme works to stop a company claiming reports are duplicates when they’re not?
- glomph 8y agoIf it was a duplicate they would be able to show how the hash of the duplicate report was already in the tree. For more information you might want to read about Merkel proofs. For example here: https://www.quora.com/Cryptography-How-does-a-Merkle-proof-actually-work https://www.quora.com/Cryptography-How-does-a-Merkle-proof-a...