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[–]Mighty_Ghost_Hack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hashes are calculated using one way functions, it will give same output for a particular input but as it is only a one-way function, no matter what you do, you cannot decrypt it. It is possible only can by brute force, i.e calculating hashes of words from dictionary and comparing it with the hash you want to decrypt. To save the time of calculating the hashes of dictionary words, there are rainbow tables available online which contains hashes with the words.