[Cryptography] Solving Matt's hash problem

[Tom Mitchell]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 5:52 PM John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>
> In Matt Levine's long article about cryptocurrencies, he describes in
> accurate detail how hashing works, and mentions in an aside that he
> cannot include the hash of the article in the article itself, you (the
> reader) figure out why.
>
> I know this is a preimage problem, but is there anything about making
> the hash itself part of the input that would make it harder or easier
> to solve?

Making the hash part of the input is essentially a "chicken or the egg" problem.




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