RainbowCrack

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RainbowCrack
Developer(s) Zhu Shuanglei
Stable release
1.8 / August 25, 2020 (2020-08-25)
Operating system Windows and Linux
Type password cracking
Website project-rainbowcrack.com

RainbowCrack is a computer program which generates rainbow tables to be used in password cracking. RainbowCrack differs from "conventional" brute force crackers in that it uses large pre-computed tables called rainbow tables to reduce the length of time needed to crack a password drastically. [1] RainbowCrack was developed by Zhu Shuanglei, and implements an improved time–memory tradeoff cryptanalysis attack which originated in Philippe Oechslin's Ophcrack. [1]

Some organizations have made RainbowCrack's rainbow tables available free over the internet. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Project RainbowCrack = documentation". Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  2. ↑ "Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables". 27 February 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
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