Merkle tree also known as hash tree is a data structure used ... Earlier I ran some benchmarks comparing the speed of Java implementations of SHA-1, Guava's Murmur hash, CRC32 and Adler32. Adler32 ...

A Merkle tree is a hash-based data structure that is a generalization of the hash list. It is a tree structure in which each leaf node is a hash of a block of data, and each non-leaf node is a hash of ...