On Monday, 25 November 2013 23:47:52 UTC, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:32 AM, TheRandomPast wrote: > > > I have a school project to do where I've to download MD5 Hashes from a > > particular website and write a code that will crack them. Does anyone know > > where I'll find out more information on how to do this? There's only 4 > > hashes that I need to do so it doesn't have to be a large script just needs > > to be able to download the hashes from the website. Can anyone help me out? > > > > Do you actually need to download them from that web site, or can you > > simply embed them into your code? The latter would be far easier. > > > > I'm going to assume that you don't need to do anything more > > complicated than brute-force these, and I'll also assume that they're > > unsalted hashes. > > > > With a cryptographic hash function, you take text, put it into the > > function, and get back a number (or a hex or binary string, which > > comes to the same thing). You can't go from the number to the string; > > however, you can generate a large number of strings to see if any of > > them results in the same number. You can take "large number" all the > > way, and generate every possible string of a certain length, or you > > can go through a dictionary and generate words. Once you find > > something that matches, you have a plausible guess that this is the > > password. > > > > There's a basic idea of what "cracking" a hash means. Put a bit of > > code together, see how you go. If you get stuck, post your code and > > how you're stuck, and we'll try to help; but we won't simply write > > your code for you. (By the way, thanks for being up-front about it > > being a school project. The honesty is appreciated, even though we > > would almost certainly be able to tell even if you didn't. :) ) > > > > One last thing: Please get off Google Groups. It makes your posts look > > ugly, which makes you look bad, and that's (probably!) unfair. Use a > > better news client, or subscribe to the mailing list > > python-list@python.org and read and post through that. There are a > > number of regulars here who simply trash all Google Groups posts > > unread, because they're just not worth reading - switching clients > > will help you be heard, and will mean you don't annoy people with > > form. Of course, if you want to annoy us with substance, that's your > > God-given right. :) > > > > ChrisA
Hi, thanks for replying. I don't like google groups layout either I was just unsure as to what to use. I already have some code on the go I just couldn't figure out the best way to do what I wanted to do so I thought I'd ask and see if anyone could point me in the right direction. I *have* to download them, i know how many there are because I used a text editor to find them. What client do you suggest I use instead of google groups? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
