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I figured it was unlikely google would make such a mistake, so I looked at the docs. They use public key cryptography to generate a private shared secret that is hashed alongside the message. This prevents the brute force hash attack.

https://developers.google.com/business-communications/verifi...



Awesome! Thanks for looking this up, instead of just speculating.

Btw, in some sense this is exactly the same stuff you'd have to do to make committing to a single-bit work. Or encrypting a short message, in a way that's not easy to crack.




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