Re: Back to Merkle Hash Trees...

> 
> 
> Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > Key property here. You can add on (feature planned for BT2), without 
> > changing internal node indicies.
> 
> What exactly is the planned feature?
> 

Being able to append to the data.

Its very useful for some applications.

Think of make a torrent of a live TV broadcast. People could start downloading
while it was still broadcasting.

Has someone worked out the details of
1. Surely in the diagram (typo corrected)
                                        15
                     |---------------------|
                    07                   -16-
           |-------------------|
          03                  11
       |---------|         |---------|
     01        05        09        13
   |----|    |----|    |----|    |----|
 -00- -02- -04- -06- -08- -10- -12- -14- -16-

when the next data -18- arrives, hash 15 has to change, which is a problem.
2. Any thoughts on how new root hashes (and size info) will be distributed?


 
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