On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:12:51 +0200, "A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does any one of you guys know how to use the SHA-encrypted password to > get my old password back? SHA-1 is a one way hash. There isn't any reasonably efficient way to find text that produces a particular hash. If you have a small set of possible passwords, then you can try hashing them and seeing if you get the same hash. However, you would need to know the details of how the original hash was computed as it is common to include a salt to prevent people from usefully compiling dictions of hashes for (relatively) common passwords.
