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I understand how MD5 works, but I can figure out how to “decrypt\ the resulting ciphertext. Can you please explain how to decrypt an MD5 output?

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I understand how MD5 works, but I can figure out how to “decrypt\ the resulting ciphertext. Can you please explain how to decrypt an MD5 output?

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A1. MD5 is not an encryption algorithm—it is a message digest algorithm. There should be no feasible way to determine the input, given the output. That is one of the required properties of a message digest algorithm.