Comment Comment by tppiotrowski Vinokur said in an interview that Terra Quantum’s team made the discovery after figuring out how to invert what’s called a “hash function,”Can someone comment if “invert” really means invert or if it means an instant way of brute forcing all possible/probable inputs.Isn’t there an infinite number of inputs that produce the same hash, thus inverting a hash function would produce infinite results?Edit: forgot hashing usually truncates the payload to the 4096 characters/etc so I guess the inputs are finite. parent tppiotrowski 5 years ago
Can someone comment if “invert” really means invert or if it means an instant way of brute forcing all possible/probable inputs.
Isn’t there an infinite number of inputs that produce the same hash, thus inverting a hash function would produce infinite results?
Edit: forgot hashing usually truncates the payload to the 4096 characters/etc so I guess the inputs are finite.