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If you know how much of the substring of the hash matches, you could use a timing attack to construct a hash collision.
by biot 14y ago
If you know how much of the substring of the hash matches, you could use a timing attack to construct a hash collision.
- tedunangst 14y agoNot really. The hash is going to change too much. Let's say you know the first digits of a hash are "ABCDEF". It's significant work to find something that hashes to that. And now you have to generate a whole bunch of them to guess the seventh letter.