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A real rainbow represents all colors: the full spectrum. A rainbow table has all possible passwords within its spectrum (8 characters, alphanumeric, or however
by ams6110 9y ago
A real rainbow represents all colors: the full spectrum. A rainbow table has all possible passwords within its spectrum (8 characters, alphanumeric, or however it's defined).
A non-technical term I might use is to call a rainbow table a "reverse phone book for passwords"
- sverige 9y agoFair enough, but many (probably most) of the people this training is aimed at have no idea what a reverse phone book is. I haven't seen a physical copy of one for a couple of decades. Do you have a source for the origin of the name, or is it just what comes to your mind when you think of it?
- ams6110 9y agoI don't have a source, but the analogy seems obvious to me. If you're more curious, I guess you could do your own research?
- tCfD 9y agoIirc they acquired that nickname because early rainbow tables, which were in plain text or another simple uncompressed format, looked very much like ASCII rainbow patterns in a text editor due to the iterative nature of the key, salt, and hash stepping.
- fjsolwmv 9y agoThe people in the training haven't used "magic" recently either, seeing as magic doesn't exist.