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Rainbow Table

A precomputed table of password hashes used to reverse hash functions and recover plaintext passwords. Rainbow tables trade storage space for computation time, making hash cracking significantly faster. Salted hashes defeat rainbow table attacks.

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Brute Force Attack

authentication

An attack method that systematically tries every possible combination of characters to crack passwords or encryption key...

Credential Harvesting

phishing

The process of collecting usernames, passwords, and other authentication credentials through fake login pages, keylogger...

Hashing

data-protection

A one-way function that converts input data into a fixed-length string of characters. Unlike encryption, hashing cannot...

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