Hi, so i was able to sniff packets from my network and i got my username and password but the password was not in plain text. Here is the details Form item: "username" = "work" Key: username Value: work Form item: "password" = "c7bcd01cacc676d4b0a0a83b696dabc9" Key: password Value: c7bcd01cacc676d4b0a0a83b696dabc9 and then i tried decrypting the password using an md5 decrypter but it gave me an error about not finding any hashes. What could the problem be? asked 27 Apr '15, 08:21  orobogenius |
One Answer:
You can't turn an md5 hash back into a password. What you can do, and I suspect this is what your "decrypter" does, is to create a database of md5 hashes of all the possible passwords (a rainbow table), then look up your hash in the database. If it's there, bingo, if it's not, then you need a better rainbow table. Note there may be multiple passwords that hash to the same value as it's known that md5 suffers from hash collisions. Also note that this is pretty much off-topic for this site. answered 27 Apr '15, 08:52  grahamb ♦ edited 27 Apr '15, 08:52 |
