[Cryptography] Name for a specific type of preimage resistance

John Denker jsd at av8n.com
Fri Dec 9 00:04:18 EST 2022


On 12/8/22 5:35 AM, Peter Gutmann asked:

> Is there a name for this special-case preimage attack, find the one preimage
> that contains the secret value, to distinguish it from a generic preimage
> attack, find any preimage?

If I understand the question, a good answer might be /decryption/.

If the preimage is unique, it isn't a hash so much as an
encryption, and a preimage attack is a decryption attack.



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