On Nov 9, 10:54 am, Peter De Berdt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09 Nov 2009, at 11:43, madhuri godade wrote:
>
> > I want decrypt a password which is encrypted by MD5.
>
> MD5 is a hash algorithm, which means it's a one-way encryption. You
> have no way of decrypting the hash to the original password. And since
> you are using a salt, even the rainbow tables hackers use will be
> pretty useless.
And at least according to the snippet posted, it's not MD5 it's SHA1
(which is harder to brute force)
Fred
>
> If your app isn't in production yet, you could consider a decryptable
> algorithm, like the ones you can find in Sentry:http://sentry.rubyforge.org/
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter De Berdt
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