in reply to Re^2: Creating a rainbow table for a ten-digit number: Advice?
in thread Creating a rainbow table for a ten-digit number: Advice?
Either I don't understand your problem...
or
you don't understand jethro's observation above.
If protecting the confidential, 10-digit numbers depends on your ability to "keep (a) secret" then the complexities of a rainbow table offer no advantage over a flat table of:
------------------------------- |ID | 10-digit number| ------------------------------- |Abel, A | 0123456789 | ------------------------------- |etc, | ad nauseum... | ...
Either can be compromised, no matter how hard you try to "keep secret." In fact, discussions of the rainbow table often include a note that such entities are used to make recovering "secret" data easier:
- Wikipedia: "A common application is to make attacks against hashed passwords feasible."
- XXX (name deleted): "XXX is a Windows Password cracker based on Rainbow Tables"
- Random discussion of web security: "Statistically, half of the key is found on average as soon as half the chain length has been reached" (caveats re complexity omitted)
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