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Comment by shuckles

4 years ago

This is apples to oranges. The whole thread was about random false positives and not adversarial ones.

If it's that easy to generate a false positive then I believe it will be more common to accidentally have one.

Onge again, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  • The ease of adversarial collisions has no relationship to the probability of natural collisions.

    It's entirely possible to make a cryptographic hash algorithm that has an exceptionally low probability of natural collisions but where adversarial collisions are trivial.

    It's also possible to create a cryptographic hash algorithm where occasional natural collisions are expected, but adversarial collisions require brute force.