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second preimage attack

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English

Syllables
sec-ond preim-age at-tack
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a second preimage for a hash and its preimage; that is, given a hash and an input that has that specific hash, it is able to find (faster than by brute force) another input with the same hash.

Inflected Forms

second preimage attacks (plural) second-preimage attack (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

collision attack preimage attack

Questions

What does second preimage attack mean?
An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a second preimage for a hash and its preimage; that is, given a hash and an input that has that specific hash, it is able to find (faster than by brute force) another input with the same hash.

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