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Merkle Mountain Range for Immediately Verifiable and Replicable Commitments
draft-bryce-cose-merkle-mountain-range-proofs-02

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Author Robin Bryce
Last updated 2025-05-30 (Latest revision 2024-11-26)
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Abstract

This specification describes the COSE encoding of proofs for post- order traversal binary Merkle trees, also known as history trees and Merkle mountain ranges. Proving and verifying are defined in terms of the cryptographic asynchronous accumulator described by ReyzinYakoubov (https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/718.pdf). The technical advantages of post-order traversal binary Merkle trees are discussed in CrosbyWallachStorage (https://static.usenix.org/event/sec09/tech/full_papers/crosby.pdf) and PostOrderTlog (https://research.swtch.com/tlog#appendix_a).

Authors

Robin Bryce

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