Re: Month of Random Hashes: DAY THREE

[Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Brian Dessent wrote:

> But this new composite-hash function still has an infinite number of
> inputs and a finite number of outputs, just like any other hash
> function.  And thus for any one particular output value there are still
> an infinite number of corresponding inputs.

No. There has to be at least one output having an infinite number of
corresponding inputs but this does not have to hold for all output values.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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