> I’m referring to brute force. The idea that you can’t reverse a hash seemed so obvious to me that I didn’t feel it necessary to disclaim. You are confusing h

> I’m referring to brute force. The idea that you can’t reverse a hash seemed so obvious to me that I didn’t feel it necessary to disclaim. You are confusing hashing with encryption. There is no general way to reverse a hash, be it brute force or an algorithmic method. There are an infinite number of strings that will generate the same MD5 hash. My point is, your for loop may eventually find a string, but it won't be the original AWS secret, so it won't work.