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Pre-computed? You mean rainbow tables right? They have gone the way of the dinosaur with salts. Bcrypt has a big fat salt making it mightily impractical to use
by hartror 14y ago
Pre-computed? You mean rainbow tables right? They have gone the way of the dinosaur with salts. Bcrypt has a big fat salt making it mightily impractical to use rainbow tables as the space required is so large.
- user24 14y agoSadly, many systems for many years will still use unsalted MD5s. Rainbow tables will still have a place in the cracker's toolkit for some time.
- brazzy 14y agoAnother problem with rainbow tables is that their size depends on the password length, and with current technology they become impractical almost as soon as brute forcing, and much sooner than smart dictionary attacks (e.g. hybrids where you take a dictionary and for each entry try every possible way to add 3 random characters).
- acqq 14y agoI'm talking about what's on the systems we use, not about what's the theoretical best case for us. I do envy those living in their ivory towers, downvoting for a laugh.
- jgeralnik 14y agoThe systems we use now use salts. If they don't they are doing it seriously wrong.