Hi, I'm assuming you are taking a computer/network security course. Md5 hashing operation is designed to be mathematically unidirectional, you can only attempt to find a collision situation but it's technically impossible to reverse the operation. With that said, it's possible to "crack" or "decrypt" a md5 hash value by searching through a value-hash database to find the most commonly used password under a given hash value. You can see the tool at http://www.md5crack.com/home.
Yatong > From: st...@pearwood.info > Subject: Re: Cracking hashes with Python > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:55:58 +0000 > To: python-list@python.org > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:32:41 -0800, TheRandomPast wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a school project to do where I've to download MD5 Hashes from a > > particular website and write a code that will crack them. > > A school project. Right. Heh. :-) > > And which website's hashes would this be? > > > > Does anyone > > know where I'll find out more information on how to do this? There's > > only 4 hashes that I need to do so it doesn't have to be a large script > > just needs to be able to download the hashes from the website. Can > > anyone help me out? > > The size of the script has nothing to do with the number of hashes you > have to crack. Whether it is one hash and one million, the script will be > exactly the same. > > Do you have to write a program to download the hashes, or can you just > browse to the web address with your browser and save them? > > If you have to write your own program, start here: > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+how+to+download+data+from+the+web > > > -- > Steven > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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