A length extension attack is a type of cryptographic attack that exploits certain properties of hash functions, particularly those that are based on the Merkle-Damgård construction, which many widely used hash functions (like MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256) follow. This attack allows an attacker to extend the hash of a message without needing to know the original message itself.

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