./security/rainbowcrack, Hash cracker

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Branch: pkgsrc-2009Q1, Version: 1.2nb1, Package name: rainbowcrack-1.2nb1, Maintainer: dhowland

RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster
time-memory trade-off technique. In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a hash
cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible plaintexts one by
one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this
way. The idea of time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation
in advance and store the result in files so called "rainbow table". It does
take a long time to precompute the tables. But once the one time precomputation
is finished, a time-memory trade-off cracker can be hundreds of times faster
than a brute force cracker, with the help of precomputed tables.

Master sites:

SHA1: b077a654133cd108a3c619d66482e1796d56b0dc
RMD160: 51fdcf84ebfbe8ebb9e5bc6c3d4452f9d158eb79
Filesize: 43.693 KB

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