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| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>crypto@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Crypto</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription> |
| RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique. |
| In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a password cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible |
| plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of |
| time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called |
| "rainbow table". It does take a long time to precompute the tables. But once the one time precomputation is |
| finished, a time-memory trade-off cracker can be hundreds of times faster than a brute force cracker, with the |
| help of precomputed tables. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |