October 2007

Recently, I’ve been doing quite a bit of research and usage in the field of Rainbow Tables. “Rainbow Tables” refers to an pre-generated series of hashes arranged in chains, ultimately exploring an entire phase space of hashing algorithms, enabling users to crack a password using the improved time-memory trade-off technique as proposed by Philippe Oechslin.

The practical upshot of which is that with a fully generated set of Rainbow Tables, it’s possible to crack any un-salted one-way hashed password in a reasonable amount of time (we’re talking minutes). Their usage includes, but is not limited to WPA-PSK, Poisoned NTLM/LM Challenge/Response, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, LM, MS-CACHE and NTLM cracking.

Free Rainbow Tables is a newly rejuvenated project which uses distributed computing technology in order to compute diverse Rainbow Tables for all to use on-line, and download for offline usage.

Shame it doesn’t mention ET:QW, and that the Strogg sound real camp, but hey, it’s a start.

From GMC’RosenRoth, you can now use his service to produce a nice image of your ET:QW statistics for use on forum signatures. Head on over to http://www.qw-stats.com/ and sort yours out.
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