Decrypting MD5 and SHA: Why You Can't Do It

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I've seen quite a few questions asking how to decrypt SHA and MD5 to obtain the original input, mostly related to "encrypted passwords" and I thought I'd try to explain why the answer is "you can't".

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Decrypting MD5 and SHA: Why You Can't Do It

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