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reverse Bob Jenkins hash to string

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I have an archive which is using Bob Jenkins hash's instead of file names, is there a way to reverse the hash's in order to get the original strings?
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Re: reverse Bob Jenkins hash to string

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Nope. Even if you could spare the time to try bruteforcing strings to match the hash, Jenkins hashing can result in plenty of false positives, so a match doesn't make it certain that you really have the right original name.
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