Nope.. nothing that'll easily decrypt MD5 back to it's original value. As the line below says and the rest of the thread explained, MD5 is a one-way function. In ordre to take an MD5 hash and get back to the original value, you'd basically have to take every possible combination of letters/numbers/etc and create an MD5 hash out of them and compare that with the one you're trying to "Decrypt". So you're not really decrypting, just methodically guessing and then automatically trying the next guess. This is a VERY long and time consuming process and essentially isn't worth it. The short answer? No, there are no tools to decrypt MD5. It's a hash (like a checksum) not an encrypted string. You could write your own brute force program like above in about 2 minutes, but it wouldn't do you any practical good. -TG = = = Original message = = = Interesting reading, even though most of it went over my head :-) There ar'nt any tools freely available to the average joe to decypher a md5 hash though...right? Cheers, -Ryan > Just a matter of time/cpu power. ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
