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by hoytech 893 days ago
Thanks! Does this attack actually depend on extremely large files in any way? My understanding is that this method can always find fixed-size pre-images for collision attacks, and is unaffected by the pre-image size in a pre-image attack.

That makes sense about newer functions being immune. However, note that both of the cascaded hashes must be immune to prevent this attack (as described in the paper).