We all use password protection, which is an effective access control method. It is likely to continue to be a crucial component of cybersecurity for years to come. On the contrary hand, cybercriminals use a variety of techniques to break passwords and gain access without authorization. This includes attacks using rainbow tables. How dangerous are rainbow table attacks, though, and what are they? What can you do, more importantly, to defend yourself from them?
Passwords are never stored in plain text on any platform or application that takes security seriously. In other words, if your password is “password123” (which it should not be for obvious reasons), it won’t be stored as such and will instead be stored as a string of letters and numbers.
Password hashing is the process of transforming plain text into an apparently random string of characters. And algorithms, which are automated programs that make use of mathematical formulas to randomize and obfuscate plain text, are used to hash passwords. The most popular hashing formulas include MD5, SHA, Whirlpool, BCrypt, and PBKDF2.
The result of running the password “password123” through the MD5 algorithm is 482c811da5d5b4bc6d497ffa98491e38. The hashed version of “password123” is represented by this string of characters, which is how your password would be stored online.[…]
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