Re: reverse MD5 ???

If I tell you that dividing a certain number by three gives you a remainder of 2, would you be able to guess the first number? Same thing with MD5, it is just one way, it can't be reversed. Satyam "William Stokes" <kalles@operamail.com> wrote in message news:20050421132727.40363.qmail@lists.php.net... > Hello, > > I have a system that uses certain id info. This info is stored in a > session cookie in MD5 format. At certain parts of the code I need to > update or insert to MySQL DB with that id info value in cleartext. Is this > possible? > > If so, how to put this to a sql query? > > $sqlquery = "insert into x_table (team_id,number,) values > ('$team_id','$number') > > $team_id is the MD5 formatted cookie value and I need to put it to the > x_table column team_id in cleartext. > > Thanks a lot > -Will