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diff --git a/security/trillian/pkg-descr b/security/trillian/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..05f0d33c4dea --- /dev/null +++ b/security/trillian/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Trillian is an implementation of the concepts described in the +Verifiable Data Structures white paper, which in turn is an extension +and generalisation of the ideas which underpin Certificate Transparency. + +Trillian implements a Merkle tree whose contents are served from a data +storage layer, to allow scalability to extremely large trees. On top of +this Merkle tree, Trillian provides the following: + +- An append-only Log mode, analogous to the original Certificate + Transparency logs. In this mode, the Merkle tree is effectively filled + up from the left, giving a dense Merkle tree. + +Note that Trillian requires particular applications to provide their own +personalities on top of the core transparent data store functionality. |