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Ralph Merkle
A cryptographer and the inventor of the Merkle tree, with significant contributions to public-key cryptography and hashed data structures.
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Oct 16
A Merkle tree is a binary hash tree proposed by Ralph Merkle in 1979, constructed by pairing data blocks and hashing them, layer by layer upward until a unique root hash (Merkle Root) is generated.
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