second-preimage attack

A form of second preimage attack — 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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Meanings

nounsecond-preimage attack (plural second-preimage attacks)

plural second-preimage attacks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of second preimage attack.
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