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by passion__desire 790 days ago
Hashing functions do that.

Q: How many bits in the resultant hash will change, if the x bits are changed in its the original input

A: 50% on average, regardless of how many bits are changed.

All you are doing in your mind is devising scenarios to map different resultant strings to plausible reallife scenarios and spooking yourself.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/71988/how-many-bi...