Questions tagged [rainbow-table]

I get the gist of it. It's like a middle ground between brute force attack and lookup table, it stores the starting plaintext and ending hash for each chain where a chain is made by reduction and hash. What I don't get is: It's said that rainbow…

I understand how Hellman's time-memory trade-off tables work by creating chains of hash and reduction function results and storing the last result after a number of operations. since the reduction function maps from hash space (crapton of…

Under what circumstances that a Rainbow Table attack is best used?

Can someone tell me the what length passwords have been hashed, in every possible combination, in rainbow tables? In MD5 and SHA1. Including all characters (letters upper and lower case, numbers and symbols). In other words, is there a table that…