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Fair 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

Fair 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 8y ago
I 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?
- sverige 8y ago
  I have, actually. I can't find a reliable source for the origin of the name, even in the original papers written to describe them.
- fjsolwmv 8y ago
  There's no need to comment if you aren't sharing any information or ideas.
tCfD 8y ago
Iirc 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 8y ago
The people in the training haven't used "magic" recently either, seeing as magic doesn't exist.