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RainbowCrack
Developer(s)Zhu Shuanglei
Stable release1.3 / February 12, 2009 (2009-02-12)
Operating systemWindows and Linux
Typepassword cracking
Websitehttp://project-rainbowcrack.com/

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 free over the internet.

References

  1. ^ "Project RainbowCrack = documentation". Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  2. "Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables". Retrieved 2008-09-18.

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