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A cryptographic hash algorithm is a function which takes a variable size input and produces a fixed size output. The algorithm makes it difficult to find two inputs with the same output or reconstruct the input from the output.
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Finding a collision for a hash function
I'm trying to find a collision for the following (modified) Merkle–Damgård hash function. … The hash function $h^*$ is then defined as
$$h^*(x) := h(y_i)$$
How can one find a collision for $h^*$ without having one for $h$? …