rainbow table

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Etymology

Coined by cryptanalyst Philippe Oechslin in 2003.

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Noun

rainbow table (plural rainbow tables)

  1. (mathematics, cryptography) A table of surjective functions used to decrypt a text that was coded using a hash table.

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