Efficient Authenticated Dictionaries with Skip Lists and Commutative Hashing

We present an efficient and practical technique for dynamically maintaining an authenticated dictionary. The main building blocks of our scheme are the skip list data structure and cryptographic associative hash functions. Applications of our work include certificate revocation in public key infrastructure and the the publication of data collections on the Internet.

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