[kjrose]

Yay pigeon-hole principle combined with birthday attack.

[anderskaseorg]

No. The pigeonhole principle and the birthday attack both apply to situations where you’re looking for two inputs with the same hash as each other, not where you’re looking for one input that describes its own hash.

[atemerev]

Explain this then: https://twitter.com/benoconnor/status/1701057433131421935