Nope.. nothing that'll easily decrypt MD5 back to it's original value.  As the 
line below says and the rest of the thread explained, MD5 is a one-way 
function.  In ordre to take an MD5 hash and get back to the original value, 
you'd basically have to take every possible combination of letters/numbers/etc 
and create an MD5 hash out of them and compare that with the one you're trying 
to "Decrypt".   So you're not really decrypting, just methodically guessing and 
then automatically trying the next guess.

This is a VERY long and time consuming process and essentially isn't worth it.


The short answer?   No, there are no tools to decrypt MD5.  It's a hash (like a 
checksum) not an encrypted string.   You could write your own brute force 
program like above in about 2 minutes, but it wouldn't do you any practical 
good.


-TG

= = = Original message = = =

Interesting reading, even though most of it went over my head :-)
There ar'nt any tools freely available to the average joe to decypher a md5
hash though...right?

Cheers,
-Ryan

> Just a matter of time/cpu power.


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