Re: md5 question

On Friday 06 December 2002 15:41, conbud wrote: > Hey. Is there a way to get the actual word/phrase from the long string that > the md5 hash creates. Lets say, is there a way find out what > b9f6f788d4a1f33a53b2de5d20c338ac > stands for in actuall words ? Consider this, md5() takes (practically) any size of string as input and returns a 32 char string. So you give it a 1MB string and in return you get a 32 byte string -- how on earth are you going to reverse this process and get your original 1MB string from your measly 32 byte string? -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* "Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex." (Where there is no police, there is no speed limit.) -- Roman Law, trans. Petr Beckmann (1971) */