MD5 Gaming

This MD5 hash generator is useful for encrypting passwords, credit card numbers and other sensitive dates into MySQL or other databases. PHP programmers, ASP programmers, and anyone who develops on MySQL, SQL or similar should find this online tool an especially helpful resource.

What is an MD5 hash?

The MD5 hash is generated by taking a string of any length and encoding it into a 128-bit fingerprint. Encrypting the same string using the MD5 algorithm will always result in the same 128-bit hash output. MD5 hashes are often used with smaller strings when storing passwords, credit card numbers, or other sensitive data in databases like the popular MySQL. This tool provides a quick and easy way to encrypt an MD5 hash from a simple string up to 256 characters in length.

The MD5 hash is also used to ensure the data integrity of the file. Since the MD5 hash algorithm always produces the same output for a given input, the user can compare a hash of the source file with a newly generated hash of the destination file to check if it is intact and unmodified or not.

MD5 hash is NOT encryption. It is simply a fingerprint of the given input. However, this is a one-way transaction, and so it is virtually impossible to reverse engineer the MD5 hash to get the original chain.