Question

I’m working on a java project in which i need to login to a site & for that i supposed to post the data to the server. After analyzed HTTP POST traffic with fiddler, i found that the site is encrypting the password with some hashing algorithms. i.e. username posted as plain text, but password is altered. I checked the javascript source which is used for the encryption. I don’t know how to generate the same encrypted text from the given password. How to do this?

Answer 1

You can’t reverse a string hash by Hash Algorithms. Benefit of Hash Algorithm are:

• result of hash algorithms is a fixed-size.
• result can’t reverse for achieve original string.

you can read more information in blow links:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function