cryptographic attacks

birthday attack

brute force atack that exploits the mathematics behind the birthday paradox to find hash collisions where two distinct innputs produce the exact same hash output

how doe steh attacke rperform the birthday attack

attacker generates multiple versions of plaintaext to match the hashes

how to protect from birthday attack

creaete large hashes

downgrade attack

two devices to send ecrnypted info sends a weaker encryption algorithm or no ecsrutiy at all

ssl stripping

comiens an on path attack with a downgrade attack

difficult to impleemt but big returns

atacker msut sit in the middle of the conversationm
victim uses http not htttps