On the Similarities between Blockchains and Merkle-Damgård Hash Functions.
Kimmo HalunenVisa Antero VallivaaraAnni KarinsaloPublished in: QRS Companion (2018)
Keyphrases
- hash functions
- similarity search
- locality sensitive
- hashing algorithm
- similarity measure
- order preserving
- random projections
- approximate nearest neighbor search
- minimal perfect hash functions
- hamming distance
- secret key
- locality sensitive hashing
- hash table
- binary codes
- hamming space
- stream cipher
- databases
- approximate similarity search
- pattern recognition
- data mining
- encryption scheme
- data distribution