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Perhaps this has been answered before. Grover's algorithm should result in a 256 bit hash being complexity 128 bits to crack.

I was wondering, what if you had a 512 bit hash , and xor'd the lower 256 with the upper 256 bits to result in a final 256 bit hash number.

Does this increase the complexity (ie: decreasing the viability of Grover's algorithm) by any factor?

I'm expecting not, however was just theorizing how you could remap a 512 bit hash into a 256 bit space to stop grovers from functioning (reminiscent of some public key compression algorithms).

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    $\begingroup$ Best case it's just another 256-bit hash. $\endgroup$
    – otus
    Oct 2, 2015 at 14:11

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Grover's algorithm treats the function it is evaluating as a black box and finds, with high probability, an input to the black box such that it outputs a specified value in $O(N^{1/2})$ evaluations of the function.

Since Grover's algorithm works on the function as a black box, your modification does not hinder Grover's algorithm at all in finding the preimage.

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