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I think the question, certainly the question I have - is, what are some use cases outside of "crypto" and the CT log ?

• kevinastone 1y ago
  Git and other vcs are generally built on merkle-trees for consistent hashing. There's a list of other common hashing cases on the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Uses
• trn217 1y ago
  You can make use of merkle-trees when ever you want to proof the data integrity of large amounts of individually independent data (distributed FS etc). After playing arround with SMTs for a bit, possible use-cases came to mind quite frequently.
  • vlovich123 1y ago
    The challenge to me is that the ability to prove the data integrity is quite hard once you store the data elsewhere, particularly on a single disk - I don’t know that people are regularly reading and reevalidating the stored data and likely not on every I/o operation.
• geopert 1y ago
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