Tutorial Install and Use Rainbowcrack on Kali Linux

If someone tries to access your PC, a simple login password won’t stop them. Passwords are characters that protect important documents of people or organizations. Accessing a computer user’s password is simple and makes the computer data vulnerable. A hacker can easily obtain computer passwords using password cracking tools. This work does not require special technical skills, it only requires a few simple tools. Rainbowcrack is one of the password-cracking tools. In this article, we will teach you How to Install and Use Rainbowcrack on Kali Linux. If you want to purchase a Linux VPS Server, you can check out the offered packages on the Eldernode website.

How to Install and Use Rainbowcrack on Kali Linux

What is Rainbowcrack?

RainbowCrack is a password cracking tool that cracks hashes with rainbow tables. It uses a large-scale time-memory tradeoff algorithm to crack hashes. This software creates tables called Rainbow tables and performs password cracking. Once the table is ready, Rainbowcrack can detect passwords much faster than other tools. Rainbow tables are free and they are used to reduce the time required to a crack password. Precomputing the tables is time-consuming, but Rainbowcrack can be faster than a brute force cracker once the precomputation is complete.

Rainbowcrack Features

1- GPU acceleration with AMD GPUs

2- GPU acceleration with NVIDIA GPUs

3- GPU acceleration with multiple GPUs

4- Generate, sort, merge, transform and search rainbow tables

5- Rainbow table of customizable characters

6- Rainbow table of SHA1, SHA256, LM, NTLM, MD5, and configurable hash algorithms

In the continuation of this article from the Kali Linux training series, we want to teach you to step by step how to install and use Rainbowcrack in Kali Linux.

Installing Rainbowcrack on Kali Linux

In this section, you will learn how to install Rainbowcrack on Kali Linux. To do this follow the steps below and enter the following commands.

First, update your system packages with the following command:

sudo apt update

Now you can install Rainbowcrack using the following command:

sudo apt install rainbowcrack

How to Use Rainbowcrack on Kali Linux

In this section, we will introduce you to the usage of Rainbowcrack on Kali Linux.

You can get help from the Rainbowcrack by entering the following command:

rcrack -h

To convert the rainbow table from .rt file format to .rtc file format, use the rt2rtc program:

rt2rtc -h

And to convert the rainbow table from .rtc format to .rt format, you can use the rtc2rt program:

rtc2rt -h

Once you are in the created folder, run rtgen with the following command to make sure everything is installed correctly:

rtgen -h

Uninstalling Rainbowcrack from Kali Linux

If you want to uninstall Rainbowcrack, use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rainbowcrack

To remove Rainbowcrack configurations, data, and all of its dependencies, just run the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rainbowcrack

FAQ

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Conclusion

Rainbowcrack is a hash cracker that makes use of a large-scale time-memory trade-off. You can crack passwords by generating rainbow tables from various sources. This article taught you how to install and use Rainbowcrack on Kali Linux. I hope this article was useful for you and you enjoy it. If you have any problems you can contact us in the Comments.