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by nokcha 1515 days ago
Question is a bit ambiguous whether it refers to a 'second-preimage attack' or a 'collision attack'.

'Second-preimage attack': You are given a message, and your goal is find another message that hashes to the value as the given message.

'Collision attack': Your goal is to construct two messages (of your choosing) that hash to the same value.