rustreexo - Utreexo in rust

Utreexo is a dynamic hash-based accumulator designed to be used as a set membership proof system and it is used in the Bitcoin network to compress the UTXO set. This is a pure-rust implementation of the accumulator, allowing proving and verifying set membership proofs.

Usage

Rustreexo provides two basic data structures to represent the accumulator, Stump and Pollard. Stump is a lightweight version of the accumulator that only keeps the roots, and therefore only uses O(log n) space. Pollard is a more complete version of the accumulator that keeps the full tree, and therefore uses O(n) space. However, both data structures implements the same algorithms, so a proof generated by a Pollard is meant to be verified by a Stump. Here's how to use the Stump:

use rustreexo::accumulator::stump::Stump;

let stump = Stump::new();
// Modify the accumulator, adding UTXOs and removing STXOs, that are proved by del_proof
let (stump, _) = stump.modify(utxos, stxos, del_proof).unwrap();
// Verify a proof for a UTXO
assert!(stump.verify(utxo_proof).unwrap());

for a complete example, see examples/.

Testing

This library contains an exhaustive test suite that covers all the algorithms implemented. To run the tests, simply run cargo test. We test for internal code sanity and cross-test with values generated by the utreexo lib.

License

rustreexo is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

References

• Utreexo: A dynamic hash-based accumulator optimized for the Bitcoin UTXO set
• Dev++ 03-09-EN | Acumulator Based Cryptography & UTreexo
• What is UTreeXO? with Calvin Kim
• Rustreexo

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.