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The problem with a hash function like you ask for is that, if you hash an $n$-bit string and give the hash to someone else, they can recover the string using $n$ hash calculations with a binary search. For a simple example, let's say the $n=8$, your string is $01011001$ in binary, and its hash is $Y = H(01011001)$. To recover the string from the hash, I ...



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