Collision Attack

In cryptography, a collision attack on a cryptographic hash tries to find two arbitrary inputs that will produce the same hash value, i.e. a hash collision. In contrast to a preimage attack, neither the hash value nor one of the inputs is specified.

There are roughly two types of collision attacks:

Collision attack
Find two arbitrary different messages m1 and m2 such that hash(m1) = hash(m2).
Chosen-prefix collision attack
Given two different prefixes p1, p2 find two appendages m1 and m2 such that hash(p1 ∥ m1) = hash(p2 ∥ m2) (where is the concatenation operation).

Read more about Collision Attack:  Classical Collision Attack, Chosen-prefix Collision Attack, Attack Scenarios

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