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John Smith and Sandra Dee share the same hash value of 02, causing a hash collision. In computer science, a hash collision or hash clash [1] is when two distinct pieces of data in a hash table share the same hash value. The hash value in this case is derived from a hash function which takes a data input and returns a fixed length of bits. [2]
A hash of n bits can be broken in 2 n/2 time steps (evaluations of the hash function). Mathematically stated, a collision attack finds two different messages m1 and m2, such that hash(m1) = hash(m2). In a classical collision attack, the attacker has no control over the content of either message, but they are arbitrarily chosen by the algorithm.
Generally, the basic security of cryptographic hash functions can be seen from different angles: pre-image resistance, second pre-image resistance, collision resistance, and pseudo-randomness. Pre-image resistance: given a hash h, it should be hard to find any message m such that h = hash(m). This concept is related to that of the one-way function.
In words, when given an x, it is not possible to find another x' such that the hashing function would create a collision. A hash function has strong collision resistance when, given a hashing function H, no arbitrary x and x' can be found where H(x)=H(x'). In words, no two x's can be found where the hashing function would create a collision.
Collisions originally reported in 2004, [13] followed up by cryptanalysis paper in 2005. [19] RadioGatún: Up to 2 608 [20] 2 704: 2008-12-04 For a word size w between 1-64 bits, the hash provides a security claim of 2 9.5w. The attack can find a collision in 2 11w time. [21] RIPEMD-160 2 80: 48 of 80 rounds (2 51 time) 2006 Paper. [22] SHA-0: ...
This property is sometimes referred to as strong collision resistance. It requires a hash value at least twice as long as that required for pre-image resistance; otherwise, collisions may be found by a birthday attack. [4] Collision resistance implies second pre-image resistance but does not imply pre-image resistance. [5]
A photographic portrait of a real woman (Adobe Stock #221271979) reduces through the test algorithm to a similar hash as the photograph of a butterfly painted in watercolor (from the "deposit photos" database). Both sample images are in commercial databases. Kuederle is concerned with collisions like this. "These cases will be manually reviewed.
With a birthday attack, it is possible to find a collision of a hash function with % chance in = /, where is the bit length of the hash output, [1] [2] and with being the classical preimage resistance security with the same probability. [2]