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by pedrox 4399 days ago
Also, this hash function is linear so it has the equivalent substrings property. One can take advantage of it and be able to generate preimages even faster. Take a preimage and find m equivalent strings for n substrings of it. Replacing the substring with their equivalent will get you n to the m-th preimages that hash to the same value.