How to Hack Passwords

Key Takeaways

how to hack passwords the first thing you need to know about passwords is that most responsible companies will not store passwords in the text form in their databases they will usually use a hashing algorithm like xiao1 or md5 and convert the passwords into some text that looks like gibberish to the entrant eye and it's this hash that is stored in their database once you get access to the database in the hash of a password you can check if this hash is available in rainbow tables rainbow tables and nothing but tables containing hash forms of some commonly used passwords if you don't get a match you can start a dictionary attack there are dictionaries available on the internet that contain commonly used passwords and these dictionaries contain much more passwords than the rainbow tables then you hash these passwords to see if the hash matches the one you got from the database if dictionary attack also fails you can do a Brute Force attack this is when you create combinations of different characters to guess the password then you generate the hash for this guess and compare it to the hash you got from the database but this process can be extremely slow and that