Re: Merkle, URLs, etc

Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:49:51 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
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Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> Binary Merkle Trees: Are heavily flawed, and the only suggestion made to fix
> it was to send the grandchildren as well, which completely defeats the point
> of the child nodes, making the child nodes pure overhead, they serve no
> purpose except to enlarge the tranfer and raise the CPU time.

A merkle tree with the same granularity as BT1 does have about the same 
overhead.


 
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