Matthew Toseland wrote: >I don't see what the big deal is with incremental verification. With CHK >trees, as long as the CHKs validate, you have incremenetal validation. > Sorry, you're right, I've confused two issues. With a CHK tree the intermediate nodes can verify the block, but the hashes of the block's children are encrypted, so the requester must send a separate request for each child. With a hash tree the hashes of the block's children are in plaintext, so the intermediate nodes can verify and forward the children without the requester having to explicitly request them.
Cheers, Michael
