Common password encryption formats used by programs such as Microsoft’s LAN Manager have, since the mid-1990s, been vulnerable to brute force attacks like the infamous l0phtcrack. A brute force attack ...

Rainbow Method and Table creator Phillip Oechslin emailed me regarding my recent column on Rainbow tables. Here's his email. Hello Roger, I just saw your online article on CSO online in Australia. I ...

It will probably surprise no one that users continue to use weak passwords that are easily guessable. And if not guessable, they are at least quickly revealed by dictionary programs, rainbow tables ...

Hey I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with this site, but at rainbowcrack.com you can reserve certain rainbow tables to precompute, and for each table you compute, you can query the hash ...