In cryptography, an accumulator is a one way membership hash function. It allows users to certify that potential candidates are a member of a certain set without revealing the individual members of the set. This concept was formally introduced by Josh Benaloh and Michael de Mare in 1993.[1][2]
- ^ Benaloh, Josh; de Mare, Michael (1994). "One-Way Accumulators: A Decentralized Alternative to Digital Signatures" (PDF). Advances in Cryptology — EUROCRYPT '93. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 765. pp. 274–285. doi:10.1007/3-540-48285-7_24. ISBN 978-3-540-57600-6. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
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