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> It is always interesting to look at beginnings and early signs of notions - concepts - that we use in our everyday lives. To add one in here: Cipher Block Ch
by DarthGhandi 7y ago
> It is always interesting to look at beginnings and early signs of notions - concepts - that we use in our everyday lives.
To add one in here: Cipher Block Chaining was invented in 1976. Blockchain is now common parlance.
- kortilla 7y agoDespite both having the word block and chain, they aren’t really related. CBC mode is not even requisite to implement a block chain.
- pdpi 7y agoMerkle Trees are from 1979 and those are one of the core concepts for most blockchain implementations (a Blockchain proper is, technically, just a merkle tree with a branching factor of 1).