Security+5e Lab12-1: Use an Online Rainbow Table Cracker
Although brute force and dictionary attacks were once the primary tools used by attackers to crack stolen digest passwords, more recently attackers have used rainbow tables. Rainbow tables make password attacks easier by creating a large pregenerated data set of candidate digests. In this lab, we'll create a hash on a password and then crack it with an online rainbow table cracker to demonstrate the speed of using rainbow tables.