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Originally Posted by WingedPanther
The thing with MD5 is that it's a hash. That means "cracking" it is really a matter of finding a collision, something that will hash to the same value, but may not have anything to do with the original value.
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Exactly. From what I know there's no way to get the right value from a given MD5-sum, only using that sum. You have to make some permutations using different characters, numbers, etc. and then encrypt it using MD5, and then compare with the MD5-sum you wanted to "crack".
My favorite tool for cracking MD5 is "Cain", and it uses exactly that method.