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I forgot what type of hashing used for passwords in my database. How can I recover passwords in my database? -Any solution to my problem? or any suggestions?

-Thanks in advance.

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Member Avatar for jwenting

Try different hashes until you find one that works...
Only way really.

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Look at the code that hashed them in the first place.

commented: I don't have that code now. I have only database stored. +0
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Each hash may have a different length. MD5 is 32 for example. Just dump one in Google, see what it says. BTW hashing is a one way algorithm, so you can't just make the passwords readable again.

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