English Explanatory Dictionary

second preimage attack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a second preimage for a hash and its preimage; that is, given a hash and an input that has that specific hash, it is able to find (faster than by brute force) another input with the same hash.

Word forms

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