6 Comments on “Which of the following cryptographic attacks would salting of passwords …?”

1. kontol says:

   February 20, 2018 at 3:48 pm

   Dictionary is the correct answer.

   
   
   
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   1. So not Mike Meyers says:

      April 1, 2018 at 4:55 pm

      no, it’s rainbow table. Not sure why they have two answers.

      
      
      
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2. JohnnyMac says:

   April 14, 2018 at 1:41 pm

   So not Mike Meyers is correct, its C. Rainbow attacks are against the hashed passwords stored on a computer and salt is added to the end of a password prior to hashing, to increase security. The end-user has nothing to due with the salt. Brute Force and Dictionary attack the actual password prior to salt being added.

   
   
   
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3. JayWalkerIT says:

   April 14, 2018 at 6:16 pm

   Dictionary will still work. Rainbow table will not. Rainbow table is the only answer.

   
   
   
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4. George says:

   April 17, 2018 at 5:05 pm

   Rainbow Table is definitely the answer. Dictionary attacks are avoided with password complexity not salting.

   
   
   
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5. XYZ says:

   May 13, 2018 at 4:01 pm

   why salt did not help when using dictionary attack

   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9220509/why-salt-did-not-help-when-using-dictionary-attack

   
   
   
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