RainbowCrack is 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. RainbowCrack was developed by Zhu Shuanglei, and implements an improved time–memory tradeoff cryptanalysis attack which originated in Philippe Oechslin's Ophcrack.
Some organizations have made RainbowCrack's rainbow tables available free over the internet.
External links
- Project RainbowCrack - Developer's official site.
- Rainbow Tables & Rainbow Crack tutorial
- Recovering Windows passwords with RainbowCrack
References
"Project RainbowCrack = documentation". Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20080705140750/http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack ↩
"Project RainbowCrack = documentation". Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20080705140750/http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack ↩
"Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables". 27 February 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-18. http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/02/password-cracking-with-rainbowcrack-and-rainbow-tables/ ↩