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Tree hash and multithreading for parallelism
I am using tree hash mode of Skein on a 16 core processor. Will it automatically employ parallelism using more than one cores or do I have to use multi-threading within the tree hash for parallel ...
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What is the purpose of using different hash functions for the leaves and internals of a hash tree?
I just learned that the THEX hash tree specification which is widely used in P2P requires that two different hash functions be used: one for the leaf nodes (hashes of input data) and one for the ...
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How does a “Tiger Tree Hash” handle data whose size isn't a power of two?
Constructing a hash tree is simple enough if the data fits into a number of blocks that is a power of two.
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