How would you decrypt a MD5-encrypted string? ;)

Update: MD5 is one-way hash, and therefore, you aren't able to "decrypt" something you "encrypted" with MD5. This can be useful for passwords (and some operating systems use MD5 for their password file). You make a MD5 hash of the password once and store that output. When, later, a user types in his/her password, you MD5 that string too and compare the results. But since you specifically spoke about decrypting, this type (MD5) doesn't seem valid here. (Thanks to Limbic~Region for pointing out the lacking explanation)

Update: changed terminology a bit

D'Oh! I looked at the post carefully and registered 'encryption' only. Need more coffee, clearly.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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How would you decrypt a MD5-encrypted string?

By being very, very patient.

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How would you decrypt a MD5-encrypted string? ;)

Well I work for NSA and with a CRAY and the right hooks you can turn 128bits into the complete works of Shakespere ;)