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RainbowCrack

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Developer(s)
  
Zhu Shuanglei

Type
  
password cracking

Operating system
  
Windows and Linux

Stable release
  
1.61 / April 25, 2015 (2015-04-25)

RainbowCrack is a computer program which generates rainbow tables to be used in password cracking. RainbowCrack differs from "conventional" brute force crackers in that it uses large pre-computed tables called rainbow tables to reduce the length of time needed to crack a password drastically. RainbowCrack was developed by Zhu Shuanglei, and implements an improved time-memory trade-off cryptanalysis attack which originated in Philippe Oechslin's Ophcrack.

Some organizations have made RainbowCrack's rainbow tables available free over the internet.

References

RainbowCrack Wikipedia