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Posted by Kailash Nadh on 11/26/07 03:22
Toby, I think you are mistaken.
In theory, every md5 hash is unique. An md5 hash is bound to a single
unique input. If a brute-force matches a has, THAT is the original
input.
Regards,
Kailash Nadh
http://kailashnadh.name
On Nov 23, 7:13 pm, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> Rik Wasmus wrote:
> > You can't decrypt/decode it though (well, at least not practically).
>
> Well, you can't at all, because for any given MD5 hash, there are infinite
> possible inputs which could have generated it. So even if you manage to
> find an input which produces that value as its output (which is more or
> less an enormous brute-force search), you can't be sure that it's the same
> as the original input.
>
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