Merkle Tree Traversal Revisited

  • Authors:
  • Johannes Buchmann;Erik Dahmen;Michael Schneider

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 64289;Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 64289;Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 64289

  • Venue:
  • PQCrypto '08 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a new algorithm for computing authentication paths in the Merkle signature scheme. Compared to the best algorithm for this task, our algorithm reduces the worst case running time considerably.