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Re:Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model by Ajedi32 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @09:50AM (#28220899)
NeuralHash is a perceptual hash, not a cryptographically secure hash. Perceptual hashes have trivially findable second preimages by design, as the entire point is for two different images which appear visually similar to return the same result.

It's not particularly surprising to me that a perceptual hash might also have collisions that don't look similar to the human eye, though if Apple ever claimed otherwise this counterexample is solid proof that they're wrong.

Re:Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model by cyanite on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:15PM (#28226492)
The problem is that you’d need the original NeuralHash, which isn’t stored on the device. The device only has a blinded version.