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Assuming you ignore or amortize the time necessary to create the table in the first place, of course. This is the basis for rainbow tables: precomputed tables
by nneonneo 2y ago
Assuming you ignore or amortize the time necessary to create the table in the first place, of course.
This is the basis for rainbow tables: precomputed tables for mapping hashes to passwords, with a space-saving “hash chaining” trick to effect a constant factor reduction in table size. Such tables are the reason why passwords must be hashed with a unique salt when stored in a database.