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#HOW TO DECRYPT HTPASSWD PASSWORD PASSWORD#
#HOW TO DECRYPT HTPASSWD PASSWORD CRACK#

#HOW TO DECRYPT HTPASSWD PASSWORD PASSWORD#

You'll be surprised how many people uses common easy to figure passwords and the brute force dictionary has tons of common passwords which are hashed and it compares it's value with the hashed password to find a match.īecause of this cryptographic developers came up with the "salt" and "pepper" hashing. This by no means it always works but it is useful. Most common way to figure out a hashed password is to use brute force dictionary program to decrypt and figure out a hashed password.

#HOW TO DECRYPT HTPASSWD PASSWORD CRACK#

There are dedicated hardware just to crack weak hashed passwords. It all depends how the passwords has been "hashed" and what cryptographic algorithm was used, what techniques was used to hash a password and so on. Never assume a "hashed" password is always safe, not decryptable and uncrackable.

Hashing Algorithms and Security - Computerphile (youtube).

How NOT to Store Passwords! - Computerphile (youtube).

Fundamental difference between Hashing and Encryption algorithms (stack overflow).

So for a conclusion, you can "decrypt" a hashed password, but it's not easy. Then in the end the solution is still to brute-force the password(try every combination) then hash it and see if it matches the hash that's stored in the database. You can find out what password the user used, but then you need to know what hash string was used to hash it and also you need to know what hashing algorithm was used.

Then simply compare those hashes and you know if the password is correct. Then how do you know what the correct password is? Well you enter the password and take that same hash string and then you will get the same hash. Then you store this password + hash in a database. Hashing works in basic terms, that you take a random string and mix that up (using a certain algorithm) with the password so that it becomes totally unreadable. You can't decrypt a hashed password, that would ruin the point of hashing.