Cybersecurity and Cryptography
A birthday attack is a type of cryptographic attack that exploits the mathematics behind hash functions, specifically using the birthday paradox to find collisions in hash values. This attack demonstrates that it is easier to find two different inputs that produce the same hash output than one might intuitively expect. The implications of this attack highlight the need for strong cryptographic hash functions with a large output size to ensure security against such vulnerabilities.
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