On Apr 23, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Rafael Copquin <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is a "rainbow table" ? Sort of a reverse directory. If you take the most common things that people use for passwords and hash them with basic techniques, you get a table of values that you can then use to look up the original password. Example: let's say you're totally lame and use 'password' as your password. The MD5 hash would be '5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99' Now if someone gets access to the user info tables, and sees a user whose hashed password is '5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99', you know their original password. -- Ed Leafe --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/pgp-signature --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
