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What is the impact on pre-calculated Rainbow Tables of adding multiple salts to a set of passwords?
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What is the impact on pre-calculated Rainbow Tables of adding multiple salts to a set of passwords?
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- ASalts increases the time to crack the original password by increasing the number oftables that
- BSalts double the total size of a rainbow table database.
- CSalts can be reversed or removed from encoding quickly to produce unsaltedhashes.
- DSalts have little effect because they can be calculated on the fly with applicationssuch as
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#rainbow tables#password salting#hash tables#password cracking