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First of all, let us explore what a "length extension attack" is; it might not be exactly what you assumed it was.
Suppose we were given the MD5 hash of a bytestring we'll call $A$; we may have no idea what the string $A$ consists of, but we do know its length.
Then, we can create a bytestring $B$ (which depends on the length of $A$, but not any of its ...
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