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Re:To Keep Passwords Safe from Hackers, Just Break Them into... by JshWright on Monday January 28, 2013 @11:32PM (#5132339)
No one bothers with rainbow tables anymore... Why bother with terabytes of storage when you can make billions of guesses per second, on extremely cheap commodity hardware?
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Re:To Keep Passwords Safe from Hackers, Just Break Them into... by PwdRsch on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @02:48PM (#5141363)
That's simply not true. Rainbow tables are still the first choice of many people trying to crack passwords, with brute force or hybrid attacks as a follow up after the common passwords have been found.

It doesn't hurt that there are a lot of rainbow tables available to access for free on the Internet.

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Re:To Keep Passwords Safe from Hackers, Just Break Them into... by JshWright on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @05:06PM (#5142070)
Well, I guess our experiences differ. Personally, I find it impractical to push many-terabyte files around, when, for a few bucks, I can effectively regenerate them in a matter of minutes.
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