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Hackers crack hash functions by finding collisions or pre-generating millions of hashes and comparing them until find the one generated it.

A. True
B. False

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Answer:

A. True

Step-by-step explanation:

Most of the attacks on hash functions are based on finding collisions (so 2 different plain texts will match the same hash) or pre-generating millions of hashes and comparing them until you find the plain that generated it.

If a hash algorithm is reverse-engineerable or can be attacked that way, it's not a good hash algorithm.

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