, SecurityFocus 2005-11-09
A trio of entrepreneurial hackers hope to do for the business of password cracking what Google did for search and, in the process, may remove the last vestiges of security from many password systems.
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Gold at the end of rainbow cracking?
2005-11-09
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Re: Gold at the end of rainbow cracking?
2005-11-10
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Gold at the end of rainbow cracking?
2005-11-11
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Regardless as to whether or not the password is hashed, shouldn't it still be hidden from normal users? Shouldn't it be non-trivial to collect the hashes to submit to a rainbow cracking database unless you are the system admin anyway?
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