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Change comment from `The reason is that if the number of hashes in the list at a given time
is odd`, to ` The reason is that if the number of hashes in the list at a given level
       is odd` (to be a bit more precise)
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that the following merkle tree algorithm has a serious flaw related to
duplicate txids, resulting in a vulnerability (CVE-2012-2459).
The reason is that if the number of hashes in the list at a given time
The reason is that if the number of hashes in the list at a given level
is odd, the last one is duplicated before computing the next level (which
is unusual in Merkle trees). This results in certain sequences of
transactions leading to the same merkle root. For example, these two

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