Breakthrough poses a ‘real and substantial threat’ to password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, team says.
  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Nobody is wanting to make a magical algorithm that gets the input to the hash.

    I mean, there’s provably at least one person who does, but there are infinite inputs that lead to the same hash.

    Breaking a hash is being able to easily create new input data that leads to the same hash (with or without the constraint of needing the original input data)