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Hashing in SHA512 using a salt? – Python

May 30, 2023 by Tarik

Samir’s answer is correct but somewhat cryptic. Basically, the salt is just a randomly derived bit of data that you prefix or postfix your data with to dramatically increase the complexity of a dictionary attack on your hashed value. So given a salt s and data d you’d just do the following to generate a … Read more

What exactly is a rainbow attack? [closed]

March 26, 2023 by Tarik

The wikipedia article is a bit difficult to understand. In a nutshell, you can think of a Rainbow Table as a large dictionary with pre-calculated hashes and the passwords from which they were calculated. The difference between Rainbow Tables and other dictionaries is simply in the method how the entries are stored. The Rainbow table … Read more