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		What is the difference between a second preimage attack and a collision attack? (cstheory.stackexchange.com)
		1 point by jaytaylor on Feb 23, 2021 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

jaytaylor on Feb 23, 2021 [–]

Further interesting reading related to bitcoin and general cryptography-

Length extension attack: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack

Fast Merkel trees: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0098.mediawi...

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