merkle_hash_tree

Rust implementation of merkle hash tree

Dependencies

• Rayon is used to parallelize of hash function and speed up performance.
• Rust-Crypto is used to applying hash function (sha256).
• rand is used to create test data.

Advantages

• Easy-to-use api
• Ability to run parallel calculations of hash function

Lacks

• There is no possibility to create pool of hash structs like pool of threads applying hash: for each SHA-256 calculation struct crypto::sha2::Sha256 is created. In the future is is possible to make feature to create pool of crypto::sha2::Sha256.
• Size of input byte block for hash function should be not less than 32. It is feature of crypto::sha2::Sha256.
• There is no possibility to use another hash function. May be in the future will add feature to apply any hash function.