Merkle Signing
Basic implementation of the merkle signing algorithm. It supports:
- Creation of a merkle tree (arbitrary number of leaves, not restricted to 2^n)
- Given a leaf, output merkle tree path
- Verify tree path (see
VerifyPath)
Merkle tree signature
The complete implementation of merkle signing requires a valid signature of the merkle root.
The signature of the merkle signing UTXO is defined as follows:
- merkle root
- signature of the merkle root
- path from own hash to merkle root
path: the hash path from our own hash to merkle root (own hash and merkle root are not included)indexes: 0 if the defined hash is a left leaf, 1 if right (idea: indexes can be left out if we fix the order of the leaves (lexicographic), but later)
Notes
The original repo is located at https://github.com/mmathys/merkle-signature