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To: taxcontrol
It's INCONCEIVABLE that a hash code could be reversed.


17 posted on 07/25/2013 4:03:09 PM PDT by null and void (You don't know what "cutting edge" means till you insult Mohammed.)
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To: null and void

It can be cracked - but not reversed. By that I mean that someone can brute force guess at the password and possibly get it right. Given enough resources, it might even be possible to build a database of passwords and their corresponding hashes. I believe IBM holds the patent for that very concept.

It is even possible to intercept the password by a man-in-the-middle attack or by some other social engineering method.

However, there is no mathematical way to take a hash and apply a program to that and end up with the original text. Thus, technically, it can not be reversed.


28 posted on 07/25/2013 4:10:17 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: null and void

PERFECT GIF!!!!!!!!!


115 posted on 07/25/2013 7:06:37 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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