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Revision as of 22:40, 13 February 2009
Developer(s) | Zhu Shuanglei |
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Stable release | 1.2
/ April 25, 2008 |
Operating system | Windows and Linux |
Type | password cracking |
Website | http://project-rainbowcrack.com/ |
RainbowCrack is the name of a computer program which generates rainbow tables to be used in password cracking. RainbowCrack differs from "conventional" brute force crackers in that it uses large pre-computed tables called rainbow tables to reduce the length of time needed to crack a password drastically.[1] RainbowCrack was developed by Zhu Shuanglei, and implements an improved time-memory trade-off cryptanalysis attack which originated in Philippe Oechslin's Ophcrack.[1]
As RainbowCrack's purpose is to generate rainbow tables and not to crack passwords per-se, some organizations have endeavored to make RainbowCrack's rainbow tables available free over the internet. [2]
References
- ^ a b "Project RainbowCrack = documentation". Retrieved 2008-09-18.
- ^ "Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables". Retrieved 2008-09-18.
External links
- Project RainbowCrack - Developers official site.
- Rainbow Tables & Rainbow Crack tutorial