MD5 Working Out?

[Hitman]

My god, some of you are stupid. Geek appears to be the only one here with a clue what hes on about.

Ok, let me exsplain. On a computer we encode data. Aka data is reprisnted in binary form, be it ascii for text, or by any other means, for images, sound, video or what ever else.
Encription, is then when we put data in to a form when its not readable.

Say we do a simple ceaser encription

Hello People << normal

ifmmp qfpqmf <<encripted.

Decription then works by doing the encription backwards, aka we shift it to the left as opposed to the right. Hence we get back are orignal unencripted text "Hello People"

Very easy.

Md5 though is NOT an encription, it is a fixed lengh one way hash. Since its not encripted, it cant be decripted. Since its a one way hash, it cant be worked out by any other way.

You can only decript something thats Encripted. Since md5 isnt incripted YOU CAN NOT DECRIPT IT.
A hash table may be able to work out the orignal text from an md5 hash, but not by decripting it, by looking it up. as decription is still impossible. Since it was never encripted to start with.

futher reading..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/MD5
http://www.answers.com/topic/md5
http://www.renewdata.com/hash-values.php

NO stop makeing yourslef look like ******s, get a clue, and stop saying such moronic things on a subject you obvuosly know abosulty nothing about.

Hmm, ok. But bruteforcers will bruteforce it so it makes the work again. Not actual decryption?

[Mentor]

Brute forces dont do anything like encription? they just slowly go threw every possible password (unless decitonary attack in whihc its a list of common passwords) which are just hashes and tested against the pass until it finds one that works. Same as brute forceing anything. But its slow and would take years often to get a pw of lengh.

[Blinger1]

can you DEHASH a md5 hash then?!

[Call]

If you read any of that youd know you cant just use a table of known words md5ed and comapred to your hash or bruteforcing going through all there is.