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Birthday Attack


Birthday attacks are a class of brute-force techniques used in an attempt to solve a class of cryptographic hash function problems. These methods take advantage of functions which, when supplied with a random input, return one of k equally likely values. By repeatedly evaluating the function for different inputs, the same output is expected to be obtained after about 1.2sqrt(k) evaluations.


See also

Birthday Problem, Cryptographic Hash Function

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References

RSA Security. "Cryptography FAQ 2.4.6. What Are Some Techniques Against Hash Functions?" http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/2-4-6.html.van Oorschot, P. and Wiener, M. "A Known Plaintext Attack on Two-Key Triple Encryption." In Advances in Cryptology--Eurocrypt '90. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 366-377, 1991.Yuval, G. "How to Swindle Rabin." Cryptologia 3, 187-189, Jul. 1979.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Birthday Attack." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BirthdayAttack.html

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