rainbow table

noun

rainbow table

noun

Etymology Coined by cryptanalyst Philippe Oechslin in 2003.

1

Computing, Cryptography, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A table of surjective functions used to decrypt a text that was coded using a hash table.

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