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Showing that a crypto hash function is not permutation, possibly conditionally?
Let $f$ be some crypto hash function, say MD5 with output $n$ bits. Restrict the input to $n$ bits.
Cryptographer told me it is open problem if such restricted collision
exists, i.e. $f(x)=f(y),x \ne ...