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Revision as of 18:46, 18 September 2008 by Penguins Are Animals 5327 (talk | contribs) (added refs, clarified)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)| Developer(s) | Zhu Shuanglei |
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| Stable release | 1.2 / April 25, 2008 (2008-04-25) |
| Operating system | Windows and Linux |
| Type | password cracking |
| Website | http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/ |
RainbowCrack is the name of a computer program which generates rainbow tables to be used in password cracking. RainbowCrack differs from "conventional" brute force crackers in that it uses large pre-computed tables called rainbow tables to reduce the length of time needed to crack a password drastically. RainbowCrack was developed by Zhu Shuanglei, and implements an improved time-memory trade-off cryptanalysis attack which originated in Philippe Oechslin's Ophcrack.
As RainbowCrack's purpose is to generate rainbow tables and not to crack passwords per-se, some organizations have endeavored to make RainbowCrack's rainbow tables available for free over the internet.
References
- ^ "Project RainbowCrack = documentation". Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- "Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables". Retrieved 2008-09-18.
External links
- Project RainbowCrack - Developers official site.
- Rainbow Tables & Rainbow Crack tutorial
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