Cracking Passwords: A New Business Model?
The Register is running this story on a “trio of entrepreneurial hackers hope to do for the business of password cracking what Google did for search…”
Over the past two years, three security enthusiasts from the United States and Europe set a host of computers to the task of creating eleven enormous tables of data that can be used to look up common passwords. The tables - totaling 500GB - form the core data of a technique known as rainbow cracking, which uses vast dictionaries of data to let anyone reverse the process of creating hashes - the statistically unique codes that, among other duties, are used to obfuscate a user’s password.
Now it looks as though they’ve launched an online service… Lock down the apps boys…
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