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Meet-in-the-middle attack
{{complex|date=April 2012‎}}
The '''Meet-in-the-middle attack''' is a [[cryptography|cryptographic]] attack which, like the [[birthday attack]], makes use of a [[space-time tradeoff]]. While the birthday attack attempts to find two values in the domain of a function that map to the same value in its range, the meet-in-the-middle attack attempts to find a value in each of the ranges and domains of the composition of two functions such that the forward mapping of one through the first function is the same(contracted; show full)*[[Birthday attack]]

==References==
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