decypher this! (harder)

[macca_ferri]

Is this the real 88rising account or what

 

[Zyger]

I'm gonna make a proper one of these later with a giveaway

 

[88rising]

I always hear people saying “one way hash” and “non reversible” which is true but misleading because it makes people think you’ll never be able to find the plaintext version of the hash.

Here’s a quote from a Shotbow admin after a data breach:



I find this funny because I was able to decrypt (you know what I mean by this) many of these hashes, including more complex ones. (They were salted SHA-256 in a more uncommon format)

I also find the announcement super misleading because I’m sure it gave many people confidence in the hashes and caused those who reuse passwords not to change them everywhere.

You can’t find the plaintext of the hash by just by having it, but you can encrypt millions to billions to trillions and more of possible combinations and check if the output hash matches the original. That’s exactly what Hashcat and similar programs do and I’ve used it myself to find the plaintext of hashes. Hell, I’ve even had people find the plaintext of bcrypt hashes using their fancy GPU rigs for me. Theoretically you can find the plaintext to any hash, just that for some you may need a lot of time, from milliseconds to entire lifetimes and longer.

When most people say “decrypt a hash” they don’t mean “magically reverse it”, they mean “Use collision attempts to match a newly generated hash with an existing one, etc.”

So 88rising - what was your intent?

If you intended for people to use hashcat and similar software to find the plaintext (which isn’t super complex), then it is understandable. But if it’s a sentence or something complex, I doubt anybody will find it.

I encrypted it with a sha256 hash and encoded it with 2 different methods.

 

[Zyger]

I encrypted it with a sha256 hash and encoded it with 2 different methods.

Lmao then it's basically impossible to get it, hashes are made to be one way only