C# Application for decrypting MD5 Key using Dictionnary and Anagram. Find the secret phrase which is an anagram of "poultry outwits ants"
This challenge was a bit more difficult to solve than I first expected. My first thought was to use a classic dictionary attack, but with a glossary of more than 100000 words of which you must select 3 words in the right order, the total number of posible right combination is 1000003.
In other words - I had to try a different strategy. My strategy is, in short, reduce the number of possible words in the list. In order to do that, I have the following assumption:
> Candidates/words must contain letters included in the anagram and minumum be the same length as the anagram-word
This assumption will reduce the list of possible words to (305 x 305 x 539) - still many - but within reach
Analysis Step Next step is to loop through the candidates and generate the MD5 hash for all combinations. All combinations are saved to file, in order to emulate a Rainbow table, which I use to lookup the the secret phrase with the MD5 hash:
MD5 hash: 4624d200580677270a54ccff86b9610e
This process will run for 1-2 hour and generate af file with posible combinations of 3GB.
The secret phrase with the MD5 hash: 4624d200580677270a54ccff86b9610e is: pastils turnout towy
