Timeline for Capital passphrases with rainbow tables?
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 11:01 | comment | added | hunter | Rainbow tables are for looking up hashes (and the plaintext the hash maps to). So you wouldn't be searching for 'Password123' directly. The most likely scenario would be that a password has been stored as a hash in some database, and you want to know which password that hash represents. So you take the hash (from the compromised database), truncate it, and look for the truncation in your rainbow table. For each match, hash the plaintext (stored along with the truncated hash) and compare it to the hash you're searching for. If it's they match, then you've found the password. | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 21:11 | comment | added | DecanalGossypine27 | Please correct me if i'm wrong, but it is my understanding that once you found a hash that matches the original hash, start truncating and hashing from the beginning plaintext for that table until you find the original hash with a plaintext. If I wanted to find a passphrase like Password123, doesn't that exact combination of characters and numbers need to be part of the first 11 truncated characters of a hash? | |
| Aug 16, 2018 at 20:45 | vote | accept | DecanalGossypine27 | ||
| Aug 16, 2018 at 9:35 | history | answered | hunter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |