Brute-Force Attack on MD5 Hash Using Hashcat

Introduction # MD5 is a cryptographic hash function that produces a 128-bit hash value, and its one-way function. That means you can&rsquo;t reverse the hash value to the original value. But you can break it using brute-force attack. In this article, I’ll guide you through the process of breaking an MD5 hash using Hashcat on Arch Linux or any other GNU/Linux distribution.