rs-merkle is the most advanced Merkle tree library for Rust. Basic features
include building a Merkle tree, creation, and verification of Merkle proofs for
single and several elements, i.e. multi-proofs. Advanced features include making
transactional changes to the tree and rolling back to any previously committed
tree state, similarly to Git.
The library is highly customizable. Hashing function and the way how the tree is built can be easily configured through a special trait.
rs-merkle is
available on crates.io, and
API Documentation is available on docs.rs.
Merkle trees, also known as hash trees, are used to verify that two or more parties have the same data without exchanging the entire data collection.
Merkle trees are used in Git, Mercurial, ZFS, IPFS, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cassandra, and many more. In Git, for example, Merkle trees are used to find a delta between the local and remote repository states to transfer only the difference between them over the network. In Bitcoin, Merkle trees are used to verify that a transaction was included in the block without downloading the whole block contents. ZFS uses Merkle trees to quickly verify data integrity, offering protection from silent data corruption caused by phantom writes, bugs in disk firmware, power surges, and other causes.
Add the following to your Cargo.toml:
[dependencies]
rs_merkle = "1.2"Documentation is available on docs.rs.
Everyone is welcome to contribute in any way or form! For further details, please read CONTRIBUTING.md
Also, see the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details