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diff --git a/app-crypt/rainbowcrack/metadata.xml b/app-crypt/rainbowcrack/metadata.xml index 861e967436b6..dba1a3e1b1d7 100644 --- a/app-crypt/rainbowcrack/metadata.xml +++ b/app-crypt/rainbowcrack/metadata.xml @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> -<maintainer type="project"> - <email>crypto@gentoo.org</email> - <name>Crypto</name> -</maintainer> -<longdescription> -RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique. - In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a password cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible -plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of -time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called -"rainbow table". It does take a long time to precompute the tables. But once the one time precomputation is -finished, a time-memory trade-off cracker can be hundreds of times faster than a brute force cracker, with the -help of precomputed tables. -</longdescription> + <maintainer type="project"> + <email>crypto@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Crypto</name> + </maintainer> + <longdescription> + RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique. + In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a password cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible + plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of + time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called + "rainbow table". It does take a long time to precompute the tables. But once the one time precomputation is + finished, a time-memory trade-off cracker can be hundreds of times faster than a brute force cracker, with the + help of precomputed tables. + </longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |