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lamida | 5 years ago

I think the author means recovering the hash by using dictionary attacks

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exdsq|5 years ago

You’d still have hash collisions

hansvm|5 years ago

Maybe not enough to matter though. If the input space is sufficiently smaller than the hash space (e.g., you aren't hashing arbitrary strings, but instead just arbitrary English words) then the probability of any hash collision that also lies in the realm of interest is vanishingly small.