A birthday attack is a type of logic bomb virus that releases its payload on some famous person's birthday,such as Michelangelo.

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A birthday attack is actually a type of cryptographic attack where the attacker attempts to find two different inputs to a hash function that produce the same output (known as a hash collision), with the goal of impersonating one of the parties involved. It has nothing to do with logic bomb viruses releasing on famous people's birthdays.

A Birthday Attack Is a Type of Logic Bomb Virus