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

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Why this brute force attack doesn't reduce all cryptographic hash functions' security bits a...

The traditional brute force collision attack is generate $2^{N/2}$ (unique) random strings, hash them and this results in ~50% chance for collision. The attack talked in the question's title is genera …