Top 10 Linux Hacking Tools

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 23, 2008

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“10. Rainbowcrack – 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”.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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