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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.

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