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Davies-Meyer: This construction is vulnerable to an academic attack, called a fixed point attack
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Variations of this method replace XOR with any other group operation, such as addition on 32-bit unsigned integers.
 
This construction is vulnerable to an academic attack, called a fixed point attack, that Bruce Schneier says "is not really worth worrying about"<ref>''Applied Cryptography'', second edition, page 448</ref>
 
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