Hash hacking

[itzboogey]

actually you can decrypt md5 hash, I wouldn't have asked if the shit still worked if you couldn't.

[The Unintelligible]

actually you can decrypt md5 hash, I wouldn't have asked if the shit still worked if you couldn't.

You don't decrypt the hash. Decrypting it would take no effort and would be a completely unsecure security mechanism.

What people do is crack them. Difference between the two is decrypting is simply systematically converting the cipher back to the original format. Hashes generally aren't reversed and instead are cross-referenced with the account so plain-text isn't exposed (and other security related purposes) as that would be a security fallacy.

See Encryption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Hash function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Again you're referring to hash cracking. Which sometimes involves minimal effort. Example being is this open source proof of concept project on Github. https://github.com/juuso/BozoCrack