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Also, this hash function is linear so it has the equivalent substrings property. One can take advantage of it and be able to generate preimages even faster. Take a preimage and find m equivalent strings for n substrings of it. Replacing the substring with their equivalent will get you n to the m-th preimages that hash to the same value.



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