
Cryptography
Programming Throwdown
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What Is a Hashback?
With a big enough hash, the chance of collision goes down dramatically. But even with that, it sort of was, for a long time, unreasonable to expect that there would be a collision which has two different inputs causing the same result. With a collision, theyco you a virus instead of an s s h tool. And so what gol did here was created two different p t f. i haven't actually opened the p t fs, but i read that they were essentially two images. So on the first p t f, there's an image. The second one is called shaw one and its basically like this: "Shaw One" This article originally published at 9am ET
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