No, a collision attack would not give you the plaintext from a hash. A first preimage attack would do that, but no computable first (or second) preimage attacks

No, a collision attack would not give you the plaintext from a hash. A first preimage attack would do that, but no computable first (or second) preimage attacks against md5 have been found. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/822638/does-any-published-research-indicate-that-preimage-attacks-on-md5-are-imminent https://stackoverflow.com/questions/822638/does-any-publishe...