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  2. Birthday problem - Wikipedia

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    Evaluating equation gives P(A′) ≈ 0.492703. Therefore, P(B) ≈ 1 − 0.492703 = 0.507297 (50.7297%). This process can be generalized to a group of n people, where p(n) is the probability of at least two of the n people sharing a birthday. It is easier to first calculate the probability p (n) that all n birthdays are different.

  3. Pollard's rho algorithm - Wikipedia

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    If the pseudorandom number = occurring in the Pollard ρ algorithm were an actual random number, it would follow that success would be achieved half the time, by the birthday paradox in () (/) iterations. It is believed that the same analysis applies as well to the actual rho algorithm, but this is a heuristic claim, and rigorous analysis of ...

  4. Birthday attack - Wikipedia

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    A birthday attack is a bruteforce collision attack that exploits the mathematics behind the birthday problem in probability theory. This attack can be used to abuse communication between two or more parties. The attack depends on the higher likelihood of collisions found between random attack attempts and a fixed degree of permutations ...

  5. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Bertrand's box paradox: A paradox of conditional probability closely related to the Boy or Girl paradox. Bertrand's paradox: Different common-sense definitions of randomness give quite different results. Birthday paradox: In a random group of only 23 people, there is a better than 50/50 chance two of them have the same birthday.

  6. Pigeonhole principle - Wikipedia

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    The birthday problem asks, for a set of n randomly chosen people, what is the probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday? The problem itself is mainly concerned with counterintuitive probabilities, but we can also tell by the pigeonhole principle that among 367 people, there is at least one pair of people who share the same ...

  7. Collision resistance - Wikipedia

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    The "birthday paradox" places an upper bound on collision resistance: if a hash function produces N bits of output, an attacker who computes only 2 N/2 (or ) hash operations on random input is likely to find two matching outputs.

  8. Hash collision - Wikipedia

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    Another reason hash collisions are likely at some point in time stems from the idea of the birthday paradox in mathematics. This problem looks at the probability of a set of two randomly chosen people having the same birthday out of n number of people. [5] This idea has led to what has been called the birthday attack.

  9. Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1 - Wikipedia

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    Unusually for a probability theory book, this book does not use the phrase "random variable", instead referring to random processes as games. [3]The first five chapters of the book concern counting problems, and include material on the exponential function, binomial coefficients, factorials, games of cards, dice, and coins, and the birthday paradox.