second preimage attack (English, noun)
expansion: second preimage attack (plural second preimage attacks)
Senses:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a second preimage for a hash and its preimage; that is, given a hash and an input that has that specific hash, it is able to find (faster than by brute force) another input with the same hash.
Forms:
form: second preimage attacks
tags: plural
form: second-preimage attack
tags: alternative