Re:Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:13PM
(#28779152)
> If they are the same everywhere, you can precompute a huge database of hashes (called a rainbow table) and simply lookup the hash in the table when breaches occur to find the password.
You can do this anyway. But the space requirements of a rainbow table are so large that including an account's username in the password would make a rainbow table completely unfeasible.
You can do this anyway. But the space requirements of a rainbow table are so large that including an account's username in the password would make a rainbow table completely unfeasible.