Timeline for Should we have a tag for all of a specific cryptographer's inventions/contributions?
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| Aug 4, 2013 at 16:19 | comment | added | D.W. | @IlmariKaronen, good solution! I like your suggestion. | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 12:00 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | @D.W.: We don't currently have either tree-hash or merkle-tree, but we do have some questions tagged with hash-tree. IMO, that's a better name anyway: experts will know it's the same as a Merkle tree, while to non-experts it's more informative. (Surprisingly, there are people interested in crypto who haven't memorized the names of all notable cryptographers yet.) Anyway, a tag synonym from merkle-tree to hash-tree could be useful, so that someone typing "merkle" into the tag box will get hash-tree as a suggestion. Also, it needs a tag wiki... | |
| Aug 3, 2013 at 20:10 | comment | added | D.W. | For what it's worth, I personally find [merkle-tree] more helpful than [tree-hash]. A "Merkle tree" is a standard term in a cryptography. A "tree hash" is... well, I wouldn't know what it is, and I don't know if there's any standard accepted meaning for it. I prefer sticking with Paulo's suggestion (but this is just one vote). | |
| Aug 2, 2013 at 11:27 | vote | accept | mikeazo | ||
| Jul 31, 2013 at 14:51 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | I know nobody who makes a distinction between hash-trees and merkle-trees. So these look pretty much like synonyms to me. A Merkle-Damgard tag can be useful when discussing properties of a hash that are specific for this construction, but not when discussing a problem unrelated to MD which just happens to use a hashfunction like MD5 or SHA-2. | |
| Jul 31, 2013 at 11:26 | comment | added | e-sushi | @CodesInChaos Assuming I've correctly understood you, your reasoning certainly makes sense and that would indeed make tagging easier. So - just to be sure I actually got it right - all tree hashes (eg the Tiger Tree Hash) should go into the [tree-hash] tag? And wouldn't that make "Merkle-Damgård" wrong too according to this reasoning, since that could be generalized using a [hash-function] tag? | |
| Jul 30, 2013 at 17:24 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | merkle-damgard probably deserved a tag, but IMO [tree-hash] is enough, we don't need [merkle-tree] in a addition to that. | |
| Jul 30, 2013 at 16:37 | history | answered | Paŭlo EbermannMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |