second preimage attack

English

Alternative forms

second-preimage attack

Noun

second preimage attack (plural second preimage attacks)

(cryptography) 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.

Coordinate terms

collision attack, preimage attack

Translations

attack on a hash function

Finnish: toinen alkukuva -hyökkäys

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