I have a hashed MD5 password saved in a MySQL database. Is there anyway to find out how many characters were in the original password?
I don't think there is because from what I've read it's difficult to decrypt a hashed password anyway.
Anyway I can do this?
EDIT: Because of the serious amount of backlash!! I'm not interested in decrypting a hash, because I know thats not a great idea from what I've read.
The reason I ask is because.
I am migrating an old system including historic database to a new updated application. All users, many thousands have their password saved in the database MD5, but most with less than 8 characters, so I just wanted to know if there was a way to know if their original password was over 8 characters, then I can bcrypt it or force users to change their password.
But I'll have to force all users to change their passwords by the looks of it