RainbowCrack 1.5 readme

Introduction
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RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique.
It cracks hashes with rainbow tables.

Files:
rtgen/rtgen.exe rainbow table generation program
rtsort/rtsort.exe rainbow table sort program
rt2rtc/rt2rtc.exe rainbow table conversion program
rtc2rt/rtc2rt.exe rainbow table conversion program
rcrack/rcrack.exe rainbow table lookup program (command line user interface)
rcrack_gui.exe [windows only] rainbow table lookup program (graphics user interface)
alglib0.so/alglib0.dll shared library
charset.txt charset configuration file
profile.txt [windows only] profile configuration file for rcrack_gui.exe program
readme.txt this file

Features:
- Full time-memory tradeoff tool suites, including rainbow table generation, sort, conversion and lookup
- Support rainbow table of any hash algorithm
- Support rainbow table of any charset
- Support rainbow table in raw file format (.rt) and compact file format (.rtc)
- Computation on multi-core processor support
- Computation on GPU (via NVIDIA CUDA technology) support (this feature is not included in this package)
- Computation on multi-GPU (via NVIDIA CUDA technology) support (this feature is not included in this package)
- Runs on 32-bit Windows operating systems
Windows XP 32-bit
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows 7 32-bit
...
- Runs on 64-bit Windows operating systems
Windows XP 64-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows 7 64-bit
...
- Runs on 32-bit Linux operating systems (x86 only)
Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit
Ubuntu 10.04.1 32-bit
Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.5 32-bit
openSUSE 11.3 32-bit
...
- Runs on 64-bit Linux operating systems (x86_64 only)
Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit
Ubuntu 10.04.1 64-bit
Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.5 64-bit
openSUSE 11.3 64-bit
...
- Unified rainbow table file format on all supported operating systems
- Command line user interface
- Graphics user interface (Windows only)

System Requirements
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Operating System: 32-bit Windows, 64-bit Windows, 32-bit Linux, 64-bit Linux
Memory: 512 MB minimal, 2 GB recommended on 32-bit operating systems
1 GB minimal, the larger the better on 64-bit operating systems

Documentation
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Documentation of RainbowCrack 1.5 software is available at http://project-rainbowcrack.com/.

Version History
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Changes in version 1.5
- Support 64-bit Windows operating systems
- Support 32-bit Linux operating systems (x86 only)
- Support 64-bit Linux operating systems (x86_64 only)
- Support rainbow table file larger than 2 GB

Changes in version 1.41
- Improved performance of rcrack and rcrack_gui program

Changes in version 1.4
- New compact rainbow table file format (.rtc) reduce rainbow table size by 50% to 56.25%
- New rt2rtc utility convert rainbow table from raw file format (.rt) to compact file format (.rtc)
- New rtc2rt utility convert rainbow table from compact file format (.rtc) to raw file format (.rt)
- The rcrack/rcrack_cuda program support both .rt and .rtc rainbow table file format
- Conversion from non-perfect to perfect rainbow table is supported by rt2rtc utility

Changes in version 1.3
- Multicore processor support
Earlier versions will only use one core on a multicore processor system.
- Overlapped harddisk read and computation
RainbowCrack 1.3 can do computation and load rainbow tables from harddisk concurrently.
- Improved hash algorithm performance of NTLM and MD5
- Fully backward compatible with existing rainbow tables generated by earlier versions of RainbowCrack
RainbowCrack 1.3 use same rainbow table format as earlier versions.
- Other enhancements

Changes in version 1.2
- Multiple hash algorithms support
- Configurable plaintext length
- LanManager password case correction

Changes in version 1.1
- Custom charset support

Changes in version 1.01
- Bugfix

Changes in version 1.0
- Initial release

Copyright 2003-2010 RainbowCrack Project. All rights reserved.
Official Website: http://project-rainbowcrack.com/
August 26, 2010