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Interpretation  Go to the MD5 Broken challenge

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If I am reading the description right, we have a 128-bit MD5 hash that is created from 7 lowercase ascii letters. The challenge gives us 64 bits. Am I correct to assume that each byte lost either its 4 MSBs or its 4 LSBs?
Is it just any 4 bit indexes that are being omitted per byte?

Or is it really random, in the sense that any 64 bit indexes out of the entire 128 bit hash were omitted?
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Am I correct to assume that each byte lost either its 4 MSBs or its 4 LSBs?

This is correct.

A Nibble of a byte is usually the contiguous 4 high or 4 low bits
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Aren't there multiple answers?
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Theoretically, yes.
A hash of length 4 bytes can hold up to 2^32 different values (the hash value)
But you can create an infinite amount of different plaintexts.
Of course, like sha512 there are already 2^512 diferent outcomes..
The rest is left as an excercice to the reader.
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