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And with GPUs rainbow tables are gone - it's now quicker to calculate an MD5 than read it from disk!



> And with GPUs rainbow tables are gone

Not exactly. I could have a rainbow table for every possible password eight characters or fewer, and find it in a rainbow table in log(table_size) but to brute force it might take several days. GPUs make it so you can generate bigger rainbow tables faster too.




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