I heard that nobody uses Rainbow tables these days, instead they use GPUs, so you should rely on computationally expensive hash function. Is it true?
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I heard that nobody uses Rainbow tables these days, instead they use GPUs, so you should rely on computationally expensive hash function. Is it true?
Rainbow tables became less of a viable attack vector because properly designed systems began salting passwords. Using a computationally expensive hash is a good counter measure to other kinds of attacks but does not mean that salted passwords are obsolete.