It Can Be Shown That Some Form of Birthday Attack

question 8

True/False

It can be shown that some form of birthday attack will succeed
against any hash scheme involving the use of cipher block
chaining without a secret key, provided that either the resulting
hash code is small enough or that a larger hash code can be
decomposed into independent subcodes.

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Definitions:

Diverse Heredities

Refers to the variety of genetic material inherited from parents across different organisms, emphasizing the range of genetic differences.

Genotype

An individual’s genetic endowment, including both expressed and unexpressed genes.

Alleles

Different forms of the same gene, such as the many forms of the eye color gene.

Phenotypes

Observable characteristics or traits of an organism resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.