Comment by simondotau
4 years ago
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.
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