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Free Rainbow Tables Looking For New Admin

Posted by kdawson on from the all-the-colors dept.

lee writes "After almost three years online, the admin of Free Rainbow Tables has decided to call it a day, citing a lack of time to keep it running. (I'm sure that you all know a rainbow table is essentially a giant list of precomputed hashes.) This is a shame, as the site is a useful resource for those occasions when you really need an existing password exposed, rather than simply changing it. I'm a Windows admin, and this site has come in very handy in the past. The currently computed tables weigh in at well over half a terabyte, are available as torrents from the site, or from a couple of mirrors (and alternatives are available). When the site was active, it featured a downloadable BOINC client to put your idle cycles to work computing ever-greater tables, and a space-saving format for storing the tables. The admin is willing to hand over source code if you wish to take over, though I suspect hosting is not included!"

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  1. You know you're hungry when by goobermaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    The headline 'Free Rainbow Tables' makes you immediately think of a table covered in Skittles

  2. Reading Rainbow Tables by MoldySpore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buy the domain, contact LeVar Burton to help promote it, and post video testimonials on how great they work.

    LeVar: "Crack passwords now! But you don't have to take my word for it..." *dun dun dunnn!*

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  3. Re:OMG is that annoying... by Shikaku · · Score: 5, Insightful

    News for Nerds.

  4. Salts? by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought the prevelance of using salts with hashes obsoleted rainbow tables years ago.

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    1. Re:Salts? by zindorsky · · Score: 5, Informative

      I thought the prevelance of using salts with hashes obsoleted rainbow tables years ago.

      True. Correctly salting your password hashes will make rainbow tables useless.

      But ... Guess which system still doesn't salt passwords? Windows!

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