Rainbow tables for password cracking

Posted Nov 22, 2006 1:33 UTC (Wed) by dmenest (guest, #4017)
In reply to: Rainbow tables for password cracking by jond
Parent article: Rainbow tables for password cracking

The MD5 password hash is a lot more complicated than a simple MD5 hash. In fact, the code to generate the password hash calls the simple MD5 hash routine more than 1000 times. So you won't be able to do it easily on the command line without a program that calls the crypt() function for you.