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Why hashcat doesn't support rainbow tables?
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02-03-2012, 04:11 PM
Why hashcat doesn't support rainbow tables? Are they a good mechansim for password recovery?
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02-03-2012, 04:53 PM
IMO they are efficient only for LM hashes. They are also extremly slow when it comes to multihashes. So yeah, they are outdated.
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02-03-2012, 05:59 PM (This post was last modified: 02-03-2012, 10:01 PM by astraman.)
You mean that dictionary attacks (Rule Based, Table-lookup, Mask) are more efficient than rainbow tables? Or reason is another?
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