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Hash To Merkle Root Calculator #40

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phptek opened this issue Oct 28, 2018 · 0 comments
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Hash To Merkle Root Calculator #40

phptek opened this issue Oct 28, 2018 · 0 comments
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phptek commented Oct 28, 2018

User Story

As an administrative user, I would like to be assured that my local content hashes are intact, so I know they form part of the advertised Merkle Root.

Background

Chainpoint, like Bitcoin, makes use of a Merkle Tree, the root of which is stored as part of a Bitcoin transaction approximately every hour. There is no easy, user-friendly means to calculate that any hash is part of a tree with a given root, besides going through a Chainpoint node.

In addition to the unidirectional tree used in version 1.0 of this module, we can use the same underlying library to quickly take a user inputted hash and generate its merkle root in accordance with a chainpoint receipt. Users should be able to determine that a false or modified hash does not hash to the same root value.

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