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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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Re: Gold at the end of rainbow cracking? 2005-11-10
Pete
My questions are similar to Mike B's ...

How do the RainbowCrack tables help someone who is sitting at a login prompt on either a Unix box or a PC with a Windows OS on it? There must be tools in existance that will lock an account after, say, 10 incorrect login attempts on either of those system...

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