Glossary: Cryptography and PKI
Rainbow table
Also written: rainbow tables
A huge precomputed table of common passwords and their hashes, so an attacker can read a password straight off an unsalted hash. Salting makes it useless.
Glossary: Cryptography and PKI
Also written: rainbow tables
A huge precomputed table of common passwords and their hashes, so an attacker can read a password straight off an unsalted hash. Salting makes it useless.