On each website where you enter your password, the website owner has to keep it in a way or another so that it can check your identity the next time you log in. Do you wonder how they memorize your password? Is it safe? I’ll answer your questions in this article. Developers have several methods…
It is a common thing to hear people complain of fraudsters hacking their accounts. One wonders how possible this is, since most people never reveal their passwords. For many, such acts lead to losing their funds, while others get locked out from their social media handles. But how do passwords get hacked in the first…
The MD5 algorithm is a one-way hash function, it’s not reversible, so there is no way to decrypt a MD5 hash “automatically”. However, current technologies allow us to use different strategies to crack MD5 hashes and find the original word. Using a rainbow table is one of them, and that’s what I’ll introduce in this…
MD5 is a cryptographic hash function, that has many advantages like the speed to generate them and the almost irreversible algorithm. These have leaded the MD5 algorithm to be widely used in the past, but where is this function still used nowadays? The most common application of the MD5 algorithm is now to check files…
Many legends are discussed about the MD5 algorithm, but it’s time to break the myths and talk about real facts. Is the MD5 algorithm still safe to store passwords? That’s what we’ll see in this article. The MD5 algorithm is no longer considered safe to store passwords, as it’s coming more and more easy to…
MD5 is a hashing function that is often used to check if a file transfer is complete and the file has not been corrupted during it. On each system there are different tools you can use to a file checksum, and in this article we’ll see how to do this on Windows. On Windows 10,…
Cracking MD5 hashes is interesting for many people, and if you are programming in JavaScript you are at the perfect place. In this article, you’ll learn how to use MD5 in JavaScript and also how to decrypt MD5 hashes. The MD5 hash function works in one way only, there is no reverse function, whatever the…
That’s a common question when you work with hashes for the first time. I’m not (yet) native speaker in MD5, but I think I can help you to guess if a hash you have is a MD5 or not. The MD5 algorithm generate 128-bits long hashes, generally represented in a string of 32 hexadecimal characters….
This is a common question with cryptographic algorithms (MD5, SHA1, etc.). The security issues with these algorithms often come from a misunderstanding of what they are and how they work. In this article, we’ll especially look at the MD5 algorithm and if it can be decrypted or not. As a general rule, the MD5 algorithm…
The MD5 algorithm is often used to check large files (after a download for example). By comparing the MD5 output, we can tell if they are the same file or not. But is it possible to have the same MD5 hash for two different files? That’s what we’ll see in this article. Two files can…
