What is a rainbow table attack and why is it less effective against salted hashes?
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A
A precomputed table of hash-to-plaintext mappings; salting adds random data making each hash unique and invalidating precomputed tables
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B
A GPU-accelerated brute-force attack; salting slows GPU computations
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C
A dictionary attack using colorful wordlists; salting encrypts the wordlist
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D
A network-based attack; salting hides the hash from network sniffers