Password hash

[im-not-alive]

Hash: 0a860fb147a040342a7ff14976dd4939
Salt: `#"uQ

Does anyone know what type of hash this is? And if possible, any way of recovering my password?

[WingedPanther]

You cannot recover a password from a hash.

[penkomitev]

This is MD5 in my opinion. If your password was containing only numbers, you can recover it for seconds. Elsewhere, it isn't possible or if it is, it would take a lot time.

[WingedPanther]

You can also get a collision which would be a completely different "password" that happens to have the same hash value.

[penkomitev]

@WingedPanther, could you please give an example of such passwords? This fact is pretty interesting to me.

[Lop]

I don't think that he can give an example.

[John]

It does indeed look like an md5 hash. The salt is simply a string added to your password, then the salted string is encrypted. This adds strength to your password. Say your password is "dog" the salted string would be "dog`#"uQ" which is then encrypted and thus adds much more complexity to your password.

At this point, md5 is not able to be decrypted, however there are bruteforcers that can help you crack the password. If your lucky, you can find an online database of md5 hashes that my contain that particular hash and its unencrypted value.

[WingedPanther]

Finding collisions is fairly computationally intensive.

[penkomitev]

Well, I supposed you have found an example. In my opinion, there is a theoritical possibility and very low probability this to happen.