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by H8crilA 819 days ago
Yes, but that's very little improvement over the generic 2^128 attack - trying random messages until one happens to match the target hash. The attack quoted by Wikipedia achieves only 4.6 bits of speedup (note that it's 2^123.4, not 2134.4 :) ). There are attacks of this sort against many cryptographic primitives, including AES, where you can gain just a few bits over the generic / brute force attacks.