How to crack MD5 hash without salt?

Question

Hashing

I forgot the password, but the hash from the old project remained, I would like to know how to hack?

Answer 1

One md5 password is easier to look for by simple brute force. Since this is your password, the list of characters used is most likely known, or even pre-generated passwords from the password database can be used. There are plenty of implementations for video cards specifically for md5 open ones, which will take several days even for one old video card and an 8-character password.
ps Rainbow tables , make sense if you need to crack a lot of passwords, there is also the name of the program

At the same time, the probability of finding a password using these tables will be 0.7542 (75.42%), the tables themselves will take 596 GiB, their generation on a Pentium-3 1 GHz computer will take 3 years, and searching for 1 password using ready-made tables will take no more than 22 minutes.
However, the table generation process can be parallelized, for example, the calculation of one table with the above parameters takes approximately 33 hours. In this case, if we have 100 computers at our disposal, all tables can be generated in 11 days.