## 3 Information Leakage Analysis of Merkle Tree-Based Authentication Schemes
### Previous Schemes and Their Vulnerabilities
#### 3.2.4 Merkle Tree-Based Authentication with Transmission in Encrypted Form
This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion(IIIT) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP) (No.2018-0-00477, Development of Malware Analysis Technique based on Deep Web and Tor) for [PERSON]. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No.2017R1C1B5015045) for [PERSON]. This research was supported by the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program(IITP-2018-0-01423) supervised by the IITP(Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion) for [PERSON]. The authors declare no conflict of interest. Figure 12: Comparison of trasmitted data on verifier side with varying data size. ## References

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