Cracking hashes with Python

[Frank Cui]

Hi,
I'm assuming you are taking a computer/network security course.
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.
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 http://www.md5crack.com/home.

Yatong

> From: steve at pearwood.info
> Subject: Re: Cracking hashes with Python
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:55:58 +0000
> To: python-list at python.org
> 
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:32:41 -0800, TheRandomPast wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> A school project. Right. Heh. :-)
> 
> And which website's hashes would this be?
> 
> 
> > 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?
> 
> The size of the script has nothing to do with the number of hashes you 
> have to crack. Whether it is one hash and one million, the script will be 
> exactly the same.
> 
> Do you have to write a program to download the hashes, or can you just 
> browse to the web address with your browser and save them?
> 
> If you have to write your own program, start here:
> 
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+how+to+download+data+from+the+web
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven
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