Ethical Hacking (part 9.3/20): Birthday attack explained with examples and python code

Maciej Zalwert
4 min readSep 6, 2021

How counterintuitive birthday probability paradox helps hackers in cryptographic brute force attacks

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Introduction

In its most interesting form hacking employs sophisticated techniques from different fields like: probability, programming and hardware.

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Maciej Zalwert

Data Scientist with 5+ years of broad-based experience in building data-intensive solutions for diverse industries