A hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every leaf node is labelled with the hash of a data block and every non-leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes. Hash trees allow efficient and secure verification of the contents of large data structures. Hash trees are a generalization of hash lists and hash chains.
(from Merkle Tree - Wikipedia)
This repository contains code written during the spring semester 2018 by Simone Stefani and Dean Rauschenbusch