1970 Year the Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA)—the nation’s first LGBT professional organization—was founded as the Task Force on Gay Liberation. (For more on the ...

Rainbow Method and Table creator Phillip Oechslin emailed me regarding my recent column on Rainbow tables. Here's his email. Hello Roger, I just saw your online article on CSO online in Australia. I ...

Last month I wrote a column in which I discussed my attempts at cracking passwords in a lab environment. I had intended for the blog post to be a thought exercise. I constantly hear people ...

The hash function is a function that can convert a character string to another character string, and it is possible to calculate the character string after conversion from the character string before ...

Common password encryption formats used by programs such as Microsoft’s LAN Manager have, since the mid-1990s, been vulnerable to brute force attacks like the infamous l0phtcrack. A brute force attack ...