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It's somewhat irrelevant how many unnatural data there is. The point is that there's way more plausible data (or sentences if we're restricting ourselves to natural language) than there are possible 160; 256 or 512 bit hashes.

Unless of course you enumerate all of human communication, but like I said that doesn't count as 'easy'.




I'm not trying to claim this is practical with current technology.




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