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Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? [message #451316 is a reply to message #451265]

Fri, 12 August 2011 01:50

danpaul88
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Jerad Gray wrote on Thu, 11 August 2011 19:32

Guess you have to screw around with the installer until you can figure out where the code is that generates the hash and then run it backward.

No such thing as running a hashing function 'backwards', it's a one way process. Since each output can be generated from an infinite number of inputs it's impossible for any function to simply take a hash value, lets say 'hbq3tgh423uhj35', and turn it back into the exact input that generated that hash, which could be (for example) '1234', but could also be (as another example) 'lol games' or 'Perl is awesome'.

Brute forcing or rainbow tables are the only ways (that I know of) to turn a hash back into the original value and even then it's impossible to be 100% accurate as it's basically guess work and relies upon recognizing common words in the input used to generate the hash or the input being in a known, fixed format which even then there might not be a unique input matching that format to produce each hash.

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		how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Distrbd21 on Wed, 02 March 2011 02:12
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: reborn on Wed, 02 March 2011 02:36
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Wed, 02 March 2011 06:32
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: halo2pac on Sat, 05 March 2011 22:45
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Gen_Blacky on Sun, 06 March 2011 21:30
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: saberhawk on Sun, 06 March 2011 21:56
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Mon, 07 March 2011 11:15
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: halo2pac on Tue, 08 March 2011 18:36
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Wed, 09 March 2011 07:14
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Olaf van der Spek on Sat, 19 March 2011 16:54
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Jerad2142 on Thu, 11 August 2011 11:32
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Fri, 12 August 2011 01:50
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: halo2pac on Tue, 16 August 2011 20:25
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: danpaul88 on Wed, 17 August 2011 01:07
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Sladewill on Wed, 09 March 2011 15:17
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: Gen_Blacky on Tue, 16 August 2011 20:53
		Re: how can i turn my serial hash back into a serial? By: reborn on Wed, 17 August 2011 02:11

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