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Not really. He generated some partially colliding 96 bit hashes, then threw away non-matching characters, and claimed to have a collision. If you let me pick
by hedora 3y ago
Not really. He generated some partially colliding 96 bit hashes, then threw away non-matching characters, and claimed to have a collision.
If you let me pick which bits matter for collision detection, then I can make any secure hash collide with itself.
On a related note, someone took the end of Contact to heart, and definitively proved that God is a Where's Waldo? fan:
https://kundor.github.io/Finding-Waldo/ https://kundor.github.io/Finding-Waldo/
- Retr0id 3y agoI never threw away any non-matching characters, it's a full 96-bit collision, period.