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What's the birthday attack?
Guessing the password that is the birthday date of the user
Find a password which has your birthday date as the decryption key
Exploiting a collision on a hashing algorithm
A social engineering attack done to obtain the birth date of the target
A birthday attack is a cryptanalytic technique. Birthday attacks can be used to find collisions in a cryptographic hash function. For instance, suppose we have a hash function which, when supplied with a random input, returns one of k equally likely values.
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