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QuestionQ447

Advanced IDS Concepts

Which of the following password-cracking attacks relies on a pre-calculated hash table to recover plaintext passwords?

  • A Brute Force attack
  • B Hybrid attack
  • C Dictionary attack
  • D Rainbow attack
Explanation

A rainbow attack uses precomputed tables of hash-chain values to look up or derive candidate plaintext passwords from password hashes, reducing the work required during the attack.

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