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A rainbow table allows inverting a cryptographic function (typically, a hash) at low cost, after a precomputation.

A rainbow table allows inverting a cryptographic function (typically, a hash) at low cost, after a precomputation.

The precomputation evaluates the function at many points (at least, all those for which the function will be invertible), and builds a compact data structure (the rainbow table) allowing later searches at modest cost, with high (or perfect) odds of success.

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Are rainbow tables still useful?

With unsalted passwords becoming rare, and stream ciphers having a significantly large state, are there currently any widely deployed systems still vulnerable to such time-memory-data trade-off attacks? If I were to show a small generic improvement…
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Multiple Rainbow Tables and their Success Probability

I am trying to understand the calculations for the success probability of finding an unknown key using rainbow tables. Basically, I have a target success probability, a known keyspace of size $N$ and want to derive the neccessary table building…
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About the differences between the rainbow table and hellman table

I'm learning the rainbow table and hellman table and I'm curious about the difference between them, so I left a question like this. Wikipedia describes the following sentence: The term, "Rainbow Tables," was first used in Oechslin's initial paper.…
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Reduction function Generation

I think I know how rainbow table works , I just wanted to make basic reduction function(for md5) in python with an approach that I am not taking a certain portion of hash but am taking the full hash and introducing below reduction function with an…
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