Extra Credit 2

Due: October 21, 2022
Points: 20


Assume that a cryptographic checksum function computes hashes of 128 bits. Prove that the probability is 0.5 that at least one collision will occur after hashing 264 randomly selected messages.


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ECS 235A, Computer and Information Security
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