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Sadly, 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.
by user24 14y ago
Sadly, 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).