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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm assuming you are taking a computer/network security course.</div><div><br></div>Md5 hashing operation is designed to be mathematically unidirectional, you can only attempt to find a collision situation but it's technically impossible to reverse the operation.<div><br></div><div>With that said, it's possible to "crack" or "decrypt" a md5 hash value by searching through a value-hash database to find the most commonly used password under a given hash value. You can see the tool at <a href="http://www.md5crack.com/home" target="_blank">http://www.md5crack.com/home</a>.<br><br>Yatong<br><br><div>> From: steve@pearwood.info<br>> Subject: Re: Cracking hashes with Python<br>> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:55:58 +0000<br>> To: python-list@python.org<br>> <br>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:32:41 -0800, TheRandomPast wrote:<br>> <br>> > Hi,<br>> > <br>> > I have a school project to do where I've to download MD5 Hashes from a<br>> > particular website and write a code that will crack them.<br>> <br>> A school project. Right. Heh. :-)<br>> <br>> And which website's hashes would this be?<br>> <br>> <br>> > Does anyone<br>> > know where I'll find out more information on how to do this? There's<br>> > only 4 hashes that I need to do so it doesn't have to be a large script<br>> > just needs to be able to download the hashes from the website. Can<br>> > anyone help me out?<br>> <br>> The size of the script has nothing to do with the number of hashes you <br>> have to crack. Whether it is one hash and one million, the script will be <br>> exactly the same.<br>> <br>> Do you have to write a program to download the hashes, or can you just <br>> browse to the web address with your browser and save them?<br>> <br>> If you have to write your own program, start here:<br>> <br>> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+how+to+download+data+from+the+web<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Steven<br>> -- <br>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list<br></div></div> </div></body>
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