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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: Re: Gold at the end of rainbow cracking? 2005-11-11
Anonymous
I believe the issue is to do with defence in depth, and the known proclivities of people to use the same passwords on different systems. (if this isn't the case, I'd be glad to hear!)

So, you break into one system and gain admin rights (bypassing the password system somehow, or using a password ...

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