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What Are Rainbow Tables?

This video will further explain rainbow tables, how they work, how a rainbow table can be used, and created.

This video will further explain rainbow tables, how they work, and how a rainbow table can be used and created.

Rainbow tables are not just a simple look-up table. One can think of these as a compromise between pre-computation and low storage.

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