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Q team - Theory about MD5 string converter to hash
Is the key part of the string (stringer)
Used the string to find the key
Many of the Q drops says (stringer) string is short for stringer & stringer of keys or stringer of many keys to unlock the map
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How to reverse MD5 to get the original string <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
stackoverflow.com/questions/12287704/ddg#12287716
No, that's not really possible, as
there can be more than one string giving the same MD5 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
it was designed to be hard to "reverse"
The goal of the MD5 and its family of hashing functions is
to get short "extracts" from long string
to make it hard to guess where they come from
to make it hard to find collisions, that is other words having the same hash (which is a very similar exigence as the second one)
Think that you can get the MD5 of any string, even very long. And the MD5 is only 16 bytes long (32 if you write it in hexa to store or distribute it more easily). If you could reverse them, you'd have a magical compacting scheme.
This being said, as there aren't so many short strings (passwords…) used in the world, you can test them from a dictionary (that's called "brute force attack") or even google for your MD5. If the word is common and wasn't salted, you have a reasonable chance to succeed…
–Denys Séguret