I obviously failed to make one thing clear: hashes, by their very definition, cannot (if well constructed anyway!) be “decoded”. Hashing does not equate to encryption!

If the hash supplied comes, for example, from a system’s password file then one might be able to “crack” it by a combination of brute-forcing and a dictionary attack. This is not just theoretically possible, but, a couple of years ago, I actually did this on a password file, with considerable success.

However for all I know, this MD5 hash comes from hashing a 200MB PDF file. Or whatever.

You cannot decode an MD5 hash. Period. Only if you know that the item that has been hashed is relatively small have you any chance of engineering a reverse.

If you do it, you are pwnage!

085dc5be23fc96443fae66cb4873e7c5

Here’s a hint, it’s an MD5 hash. ”
I need the +rep but is there a way to decode it?
kthanxbai