Re: md5 encryption - Be careful!

Be careful when you test the encryption function using the site!

If you are using the function to generate the md5 string from your password,
it will store your original password string in their database for public
consumption in the future.

Shawn

"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:10og91l1daerrhvc8jjq01n1b86ncg9o8m@xxxxxxxxxx
>I noticed that Message-ID: <JmVle.16039$g66.10335@attbi_s71> from Lee
> Marsh contained the following:
>
>>This isn't really 'undoing' an md5 hashing, but there is this
>>http://md5.rednoize.com/ database of known md5 keys that you can search
>>through. Hey, at least the probability of finding your key there is better
>>than finding it by decrypting it; as Oil Filth has pointed out, the
>>probability with decrypting is astronomical.
>
> Hey it works too...after a fashion.
>
> Try ec5287c45f0e70ec22d52e8bcbeeb640 for a magical experience.
>
> --
> Geoff Berrow 0110001001101100010000000110
> 001101101011011001000110111101100111001011
> 100110001101101111001011100111010101101011


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