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How hard is a known prefix hash preimage attack?
Suppose the attacker knows X, Z such that
H(X || Y) = Z
If bit-length(Y) < 60 then a brute force attack is possible.
What if
bit-length(Z) = 256 (such as in SHA-256)
bit-length(X) = 128
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