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I call bullshit. Let's say we want to have a rainbow table for all passwords 14 characters long. Let's say we only work with upper and lowercase English chara
by olegkikin 16y ago
I call bullshit.
Let's say we want to have a rainbow table for all passwords 14 characters long.
Let's say we only work with upper and lowercase English characters (26+26) and digits (10), so 62 possible characters.
To just store all the possible passwords would take 14 * 62^14 bytes = 1.617 × 10^17 gigabytes.
- nkurz 16y agoI think you're not understanding rainbow tables correctly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table You need to process all the passwords (once) but only 1/N of them (for some large N) are stored on the disk.
- olegkikin 16y agoPardon my ignorance. You're correct.