i noticed user.cgi using MD5 to encode the session..

my question is quite simple.. could MD5 be decoded? if so, how?

I know Lincoln Stein made like a Crypt_CBC perl module.. i think it can be decoded.. but I'm not sure how..

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Jerry Su
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At one point I actually had a reference to it, so it's "out there" <G> But that was quite awhile ago, years, actually.

The best thing is to do a search on it, maybe limit it by a few extra keywords. Just a general search -- when in doubt I usually just type it into the location bar and see what happens <G>

You might get better hits on Yahoo, if that fails.

It's amazing how well the search engines do do on things like that.



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i went to perl.com but the only documentation i got was a readme.. i thought there would be one of those synopsis thingies..

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I literally meant try the search engines:


http://google.netscape.com/netscape?query=md5+encrpytion


for example

No, to my knowledge, MD5 is a one way hash algorithim much like the crypt() function. You can't retrieve the data once it's been through hexhash().

Cheers,

Alex