Re: Back to Merkle Hash Trees...

Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Olaf van der Spek" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [BitTorrent] Back to Merkle Hash Trees...
> 
> 
> 
>>>On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 00:38:59 -0000, sh4dowmatter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>who still doesnt understand where the big advantage over a list
>>>of hashed blocks is, anyways
>>
>>Tiny .torrent size, smaller verification granularity, compatibility with
>>other merkle tree hashes.
> 
> 
> And the associated disadvantages of not having those hashes immediately
> available. Harder to determine the bad parts of the file, higher overhead in

Who said anything about not having the hashes available when needed?

> computing hashes, longer download times (extra hashes need to be
> downloaded).
> 
> Now for those that don't believe the statements above, one at a time:
> 
> Harder .... bad parts. Current process: lookup segment hash in O(1) time,
> compare hash O(m) time, total time O(n). Merkle process: step through tree
> to leaf O(log(n)) time, then compare hashes O(n) time, total time
> O(nlog(m)).

Isn't that limited by network transfer rate instead of CPU time?

> Higher overhead...: Computing root hash using current method O(n) time.
> Computing root hash for Merkle O(nlogn) time.

Isn't that limited by disk transfer rate instead of CPU time?


 
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