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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
Anonymous
One topic that is interesting in this discussion, particularly given its absence is the process of "salting" - adding a random string to password and the hash.

Ok - so the default unix variety that addes two characters isn't a particularly great enhancement, but by adding an extra 64bits (or more...

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