Re: [PHP] md5 question

[Jason Wong]

On Friday 06 December 2002 15:41, conbud wrote:
 Hey. Is there a way to get the actual word/phrase from the long string that
 the md5 hash creates. Lets say, is there a way find out what
 b9f6f788d4a1f33a53b2de5d20c338ac
 stands for in actuall words ?

Consider this, md5() takes (practically) any size of string as input and 
returns a 32 char string. 

So you give it a 1MB string and in return you get a 32 byte string -- how on 
earth are you going to reverse this process and get your original 1MB string 
from your measly 32 byte string?

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Re: [PHP] md5 question

[Chris Wesley]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, conbud wrote:

 Hey. Is there a way to get the actual word/phrase from the long string that
 the md5 hash creates. Lets say, is there a way find out what
 b9f6f788d4a1f33a53b2de5d20c338ac
 stands for in actuall words ?

In all cases, an md5sum string means, You've got better things to do
besides trying to figure out what this string means, trust me.  ;)

Check RFC 1321.  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt

~Chris


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