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Adam Roynon

The website you linked it to an MD5 hashing algorithm which is no longer considered secure as it is possible to be reversed through rainbow tables or just by brute forcing as there are always a finite number of possibilities (and MD5 hash is always 128 bits long)

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hedy

Got it, thank you.

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Adam Roynon

Happy to help,
Thank you for the comment as it may help others with similar questions