Re: MD5
| From: | Stewart Macdonald | Date: | Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:49:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MD5 | ||
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Matt (matt@smokescreen.org) recycled some electrons by writing:
> After I encrypt a string using the md5() function, how do I decrypt it back
> into the original string?
You don't. MD5 is a hashing thing, not an encrypting thing, so you can't get
the original string back.
Stewart