Objectif Sécurité has enhanced its rainbow tables in order to make use of SSDs.

"The result is, according to Objectif Sécurité's Philippe Oechslin, an acceleration by a factor of 100 when compared to their old 8GB Rainbow Tables for XP hashes," according to The H Security. "A web form takes the XP-hashes and cracks them for free with the new, ten times larger tables."

"Oechslin has fitted an elderly Athlon 64 X2 4400+ with an SSD and the optimized tables. This system can, with only a 75% CPU utilization, crack a 14 digit password with special characters, in an average of 5.3 seconds," the article states.

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