[SOLVED] How do I get and MD5ed password

[rondog]

I am in my database where I setup all the usernames and passwords. I cant remember one of them and I am trying to find out what it is.

 

I am doing this, but it is returning the md5 hash

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","uname","pw");
if (!$con) {
echo "unable to connect to DB";
echo mysql_error($con);
exit();
}
$db = mysql_select_db("db");
if (!$db) {
echo "unable to open DB";
echo mysql_error($db);
exit();
}
$query = mysql_query("SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = 'MJackson'");
$result = mysql_fetch_array($query);
echo $result[0];    
?>

[pocobueno1388]

md5 is a one way encryption, you can't reverse it.

[pocobueno1388]

Here is a website you can try out:

http://www.md5decrypter.com/

[phat_hip_prog]

Good site pocobueno1388

[rondog]

well that site didn't do much for me...What do I do since I cant figure it out?

 

how do some sites do that forgot your password thing?

[pocobueno1388]

Why didn't it do much for you?

 

Try these ones:

http://www.md5encryption.com/

http://www.md5er.com/

 

[rondog]

Why didn't it do much for you?

 

Try these ones:

http://www.md5encryption.com/

http://www.md5er.com/

 

 

it said nothing found in the database

[phat_hip_prog]

A lookup is the only way (supposedly md5 has been hacked but thats the summing up thereof). So the only way is to update the db with a new password...

[rondog]

ahh alright I guess i'll have to do that

[pocobueno1388]

Yep, thats probably your only answer.

 

Don't forget to solve the topic.

[cooldude832]

md5 is a one way encryption, you can't reverse it.

 

You can reverse it but it has a rotating algorithm that produces a key greater than the original thus it is given the term uncrackable because the time it would take to crack a md5($string) is greater than that to crack $string

[wildteen88]

pocobueno1388 the websites you posted do not actually decrypted an md5 hash/string. All them sites have a database which stores md5 hashes for commonly used words, such as the word 'the'. If you enter the md5 hash for the word 'the' you'll notice  it return the word 'the'. But if you hased the word '7h3' (7 for t and 3 for e inreplacement) you may find that it wont return the original word.

 

There is no way to easily decrypt an md5 hash except to use brute force.

[cooldude832]

as I said its considered uncrackable because its returned string is greater than the original string.  And the return string is not a linear A=1 B=2 sorta deal its based on letter position, a random key placed in the encryption and so forth.