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No. If you have a good hash function, that means it's computationally infeasible to determine anything about x based only on y. It's not statistically impossible at all; "statistically" doesn't concern itself with computational difficulties.

This is similar to how, e.g., we generally assume that AES is unbreakable from a computational point of view, but if you want a statistically unbreakable cipher, your only (IINM) option is a one-time pad.



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