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Re:Bob outsmarts Alice's one way function by petsos on Friday April 12, 2013 @08:51AM (#5538122)
> In the real, mathematical world of one way functions something similar to Bob's reverse dictionary can be created (they are called 'rainbow tables') and they are part of the reason passwords get broken easily when companies' password databases get stolen.

In real life I don't think rainbow tables play any part at all.

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Re:Bob outsmarts Alice's one way function by B-Con on Friday April 12, 2013 @11:29AM (#5539013)
They very likely come into play whenever a password hash database is leaked and the hashes were not salted/iterated properly.
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