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Gold at the end of rainbow cracking?
Robert Lemos, 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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But if you have used some sort of exploit to gain access to the password file. What stops you from resolving the hash via the rainbow tables and then removing the salt from the resulting cleartext ?

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Gold at the end of rainbow cracking? 2005-11-10
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