On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:33 PM, vaibs <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way by which we can decrypt MD5 hash in to a text. May be > some software or some algorithm or some protocol.
There is no notion of decrypting MD5 hash into text. The reason is that MD5 is a hash of fixed length irrespective of input text length. Thus multiple (and they do) texts generate the same MD5 signature and thereby you don't have a unique "decrypted" text. The approach taken is rather cracking the encrypted text where you find "a text" which generates the same hash. I have used "john the ripper" before which does it. There are also some online tools now which have huge databases with "words" that generate a particular MD5 hash (eg. http://md5crack.com/). You can try them (google for it). Hope this helps, Sharad -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
