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23.07.2004

A Note on Traversing Skew Merkle Trees
Marek Karpinski and Yakov Nekrich
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We consider the problem of traversing skew ( unbalanced ) Merkle trees and design an algorithm for traversing a skew Merkle tree in time O(log n/h) and space O(log n (2h/h)). This algorithm can be of special use in situations when exact number of items to be identified is not known in advance.

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