Rainbow table
Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 4: Securing Devices
A precomputed table of potential passwords and their hashes, sorted by hash, searched for a captured hash.
Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 4.2.B.7
Why it matters in Unit 4
Salt makes rainbow tables useless.
Example
Looking up a stolen unsalted hash and finding “sunshine1”.
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