Re^2: Reverse MD5

Digest::MD5::Reverse uses online DBs which seem to store large amounts of texts and the corresponding MD5 sums. That is probably the only reasonable way to do this. However, simply appending a random text/date on every text makes this pretty unusable.

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Re^3: Reverse MD5 by QM (Parson) on Dec 02, 2008 at 22:38 UTC
The summer 2008 edition of 2600 has an interesting extension of this: using Google (etc.) to search for the hash and find an original text (password). Apparently a lot of people or systems post this information intentionally or inadvertently. In some limited sense, you don't need the reverse function if Google is mapping the forward function. -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply]