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Difficulty of finding two different inputs that hash to the same value

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How much would an unexpected hash collision undermine the security of a hash function?

Say some random person manages to, by sheer luck, find 2 messages with the same hash. There is no systematic way of creating more such pairs of messages that produce collisions. How much would this o …