Best way to decrypt an MD5 hash?

[Calon]

Hello,

What's the best way to decrypt an MD5 hash, I need to decrypt it as I forgot it and I don't want to change the password.

[Moh]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=md5+decrypt&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

[Calon]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=md5+decrypt&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
None work.

Not going to bother with rainbow tables.

[L?KE]

You can't actually decrypt md5 I thought?

Any site that says they can just has a huge database of many many md5'ed words.

[Jxhn]

You can't decrypt md5s, you can crack them though. The easiest way to do this is to download a program or use an online script.

[Recursion]

Best way is to download a 6GB+ Rainbow.

[shizzle]

Is this what you meant?

http://www.md5decrypter.com (http://www.md5decrypter.com/)
http://www.md5encrypter.com (http://www.md5encrypter.com/You)
You put in the md5 and it will decrypt it, or vice versa.

[Tomm]

As you said yourself, a MD5 string is a hash. It is not encrypted. Thereby you cannot decrypt it, you can only attempt to compare the MD5 hash with a large table of MD5 hashes along with their none-hashed version.

[L?KE]

Is this what you meant?

http://www.md5decrypter.com (http://www.md5decrypter.com/)
http://www.md5encrypter.com (http://www.md5encrypter.com/You)
You put in the md5 and it will decrypt it, or vice versa.

That is useful, but it's not decrypting it.

It's just attempting to find it in an unreasonably large database or previously md5'ed strings.

[Jxhn]

The best md5 cracker is on website I can't say. So I'll give you a clue.

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:wWtTxYzyaMd3mM:http://students.umf.maine.edu/~randazcl/images/wind-mill.jpg minus wind and minus L. leetspeek of http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:FuQHZgw5DccRfM:http://co.marion.or.us/NR/rdonlyres/481BF728-146C-49E6-8C61-3D79ADD691F2/5465/worm.JPG

[Calon]

Best way is to download a 6GB+ Rainbow.
I have already tried this, and it told me 10 years remaining. D:

But I downloaded a 28gb.

You can't actually decrypt md5 I thought?

Any site that says they can just has a huge database of many many md5'ed words.
Yeah, pretty much.

As you said yourself, a MD5 string is a hash. It is not encrypted. Thereby you cannot decrypt it, you can only attempt to compare the MD5 hash with a large table of MD5 hashes along with their none-hashed version.
I know, I got my words mixed up.