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Ideally HASHING plaintext should produce an output which is totally unique and will never match the hash output of any other plaintext.
True
False
Hashing will produce a message digest, but more than one plaintext can produce the same hash. This is known as Collision, and although mathematically rare it is possible and therefore makes this answer false. ***This misses the point of hashing. Added language for it read better
Edit: should but not would because it is not possible. Hence the answer is correct but not useful in real life. This question is on the theoretical side of hashing but it is well known that collision resistance is only to a certain degree. Lots of people talks about hashing without knowing the basic Maths behind, sigh. The importance of hashing depends on the diffusion strength (hence collision resistant) and being an one-way function (so that it's hard to craft another plaintext to produce the same hash). Anyway, the answer "true" is correct inn terms of "should" even though it "would not" be possible.
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