Md5 Problem

[neil413]

i use MD5 password converter in my server and it works but i want is to remove it so i can see some password of the username that i want to inspect how can i do reconvert password to normal? 



thanks in advanced

 

[jaBote]

MD5 algorithm isn't a reversible one, so you can't easily convert them back. Actually, you should brute-force attack your database in order to get it done.

 

[neil413]

MD5 algorithm isn't a reversible one, so you can't easily convert them back. Actually, you should brute-force attack your database in order to get it done.

sir jabote can you teach me or give me a guide how to brute=force attack? what do you mean by that sir? wipe out?

 

[jaBote]

I mean you can't reverse the passwords into legible state unless you spend hundreds or thousands of hours (depends on your server processing capability) of full server processing time trying to guess we each password via their MD5 digest. And multiply for each individual password you mean to recover.

 

[Zirius]

One option is, have a copy of old MD5 password,

use MD5 generator and convert your preferred password for him/her

put the generated password to his login data via SQL

login via new password, inspect

then return his old password.