davidben / merkle-tree-certs

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No need to be clever with the pad #72

Closed bwesterb closed 10 months ago

bwesterb commented 12 months ago

In the current draft we carefully add some padding in the hash, so that we can reuse the computation of the first block among many hashes. From @mia1024's PoC in Python it's clear that hashing is far from the bottleneck, but that the pad is annoying to deal with. Let's remove the pad.