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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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No, it's not practical to lookup salted passwords 2005-11-14
Roger
"What stops you from resolving the hash via the rainbow tables and then removing the salt from the resulting cleartext ?"

You can't resolve a salted password in the tables (at least, it's extremely unlikely). The Rainbow Tables aren't a magical device for inverting any hash, they are simply a cle...

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