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diff --git a/security/rainbowcrack/pkg-descr b/security/rainbowcrack/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..32a9755b9ce4 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/rainbowcrack/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster +time-memory trade-off technique. + +In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a hash cracker. A traditional brute force +cracker tries all possible plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time +consuming to break complex passwords this way. The idea of time-memory trade-off +is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files +so called "rainbow table". It does take a long time to precompute the tables. +But once the one time precomputation is finished, a time-memory trade-off +cracker can be hundreds of times faster than a brute force cracker, with the +help of precomputed tables. + +WWW: http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/ |