What are Merkle trees and how do they work? A binary tree that uses cryptographic hash algorithms is called a Merkle tree. A hash tree also referred to as a Merkle tree, has labeled leaf nodes with ...

The design, implementation, and analysis of abstract data types, data structures and their algorithms. Topics include: data and procedural abstraction, amortized data structures, trees and search ...

Mathematical Background: We expect that the student is comfortable with basic mathematics at the level of a U.S. first-year college STEM student. This includes basic notions such as sets and functions ...