Explanation and methods of password cracking

There are 3 methods of cracking passwords:- 
1. Brute-Force Attack
2. Rainbow Attack
3. Dictionary Attack



What is Brute-Force Attack?
>>> It is the method of using guessed Passwords and Passphrases with hope that it will crack the password.

What is Rainbow Attack?
>>> Rainbow attack is also known as Rainbow Table Attack.A rainbow table is a precomputed table for reversing cryptographic hash functions, usually for cracking password hashes. Tables are usually used in recovering a password up to a certain length consisting of a limited set of characters.

What is Dictionary Attack?
>>> an attempt to gain illicit access to a computer system by using a very large set of words to generate potential passwords.


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