On 2013-11-26 00:58, Marc wrote:
Hashes, by definition, are not reversible mathematically. The only way to
figure out what they represent is to take plaintext that might be the
plaintext based on anything you might know about the original plaintext
(which is often nothing) and hash it; then see if the hash matches the one
you have. If it does, you have figured out the plaintext; if it doesn't try
again. For a tool that does this, look at Rainbow tables.
There are also complete hash databases on the internet. They usually
reverse-map hash values to most common values found in dictionaries.
Here is an example:
>>> import hashlib
>>> h = hashlib.md5("test")
>>> h.hexdigest()
'098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6'
>>>
Then you go here:
http://www.md5decrypter.co.uk/
There are many other databases like this, search for them with "md5
search" or "sha1 database" etc.
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