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Rainbow Tables and Why Your Password Isn't Secure
Rainbow Hash Cracking: Think your password is secure?
The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password “Fgpyyih804423” in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure.
This post is a nice introduction to the concept of “rainbow tables” and that they mean to security.
by Deane
September 10, 2007 4:34 AM
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