OSCP - Offensive Security Certified Professional Practice Test
OSCP Password Attacks and Cracking 2
What is a rainbow table attack and why is it less effective against salted hashes?
Select your answer
A
A precomputed table of hash-to-plaintext mappings; salting adds random data making each hash unique and invalidating precomputed tables
B
A GPU-accelerated brute-force attack; salting slows GPU computations
C
A dictionary attack using colorful wordlists; salting encrypts the wordlist
D
A network-based attack; salting hides the hash from network sniffers
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