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Even if you can’t get back to the original data you hashed, you’d still only need to pick an input length and then compute a single example that produced that h
by mindwok 5y ago
Even if you can’t get back to the original data you hashed, you’d still only need to pick an input length and then compute a single example that produced that hash to break all the cryptographic uses of hash functions like signatures and password storage though.
- goldenkey 5y agoExactly, it doesn't matter if Sqrt produces two possibilities, you gain root access by using either root, pun intended.