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Description: Comparison of the birthday problem (1) and birthday attack (2) by CMG Lee. In (1), collisions are found within one set, in this case, 3 out of 276 pairings of the 24 lunar astronauts. In (2), collisions are found between two sets, in this case, 1 out of 256 pairings of only the first bytes of SHA-256 hashes of 16 variants each of benign and harmful contracts.
Note: A Python script to generate the combinations and hashes is in a comment in the SVG file.
Author: Cmglee
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