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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? 2005-11-11
Roger
This attack is not effective against /etc/shadow, not simply because /etc/shadow is hidden from the attacker (which, as others have pointed out, is a first line of defense only), but because it's passwords are salted -- heavily salted, in the case of reasonably modern versions.

Rather the attack ...

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