[Cryptography] How does the size of a set of target results influence the complexity of a preimage attack?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Oct 15 23:56:25 EDT 2015


On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Ryan Carboni wrote:

> Aren't collisions checked manually to ensure that they actually are the 
> same file? I don't really understand the intent of the question.

But aren't collisions generated by exhibiting a different file for the 
same hash?  You seem to be implying the opposite, or have I misunderstood?

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