root password problem

[Faun]

yeah thats MD5 hash used in linux to store password,
Check out wikipedia , we hav encryption in our syllabus this sem.

A seed is required to make 128 bit hash and depending upon keys and S functions ur password will vary considerably(cascading effect) even for one letter difference.

Brute force is the only way to decrypt and it will take ages to get password. If u remember the hash is in hex.

 

[praka123]

so that means md5hash is broken

 

[adi007]

Is there no way that an md5 encrpted string can be decrypted...
But how does linux decryptes it and check whether the entered password is right or wrong...

I think there must be some method to decrpt the encrpted md5 string...