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[Amrit Panesar <apanesar AT 4195tech.com>]

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Ah, yes 'de-hashed' is rather ambiguous.
You're correct, I was meaning to refer to a rainbow-table lockup or even
a brute-force against the hash itself.

Reversing an MD5 hash is nearly impossible as far as I know.

Thanks

- --Neo

On 6/5/2012 7:54 PM, mike wrote:
> Just a little clarification on terminology.
>
> I think when you are saying "de-hashed" you mean cracked by means of
> known-hash lookup table, or in other words comparing with a table of
> known hash values.
>
> I think it would be troublesome to actually 'de-hash' or in other
> words to actually reverse an md5 hash derived from an arbitrary and
> sufficiently complex clear text.
>
> --Mike
>
> On 06/05/2012 07:42 PM, Amrit Panesar wrote:
> > Mmm, I hope you add salt to your md5's. Normal md5's are easily
> > 'de-hashed'
>
> > Sent from my iPhone
>
Amrit Panesar
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