Posted by Toby A Inkster on 11/23/07 19:13

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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