Disclaimer: Everything written here contains possible spoilers in case you’re also doing the challenges. I advise to use it only if you feel stuck, as the main purpose of this write up is to show my cybersecurity skills.
Rainbow table
Hashes are mainly used to get a value that can’t be reversed as opposed to other techniques in cybersecurity. Hence we need a rainbow table. A rainbow table contains a lot of different hashes that match a value, so we don’t need to “translate” the exact value over, and over again.
With that in mind, you can basically look for a hash value on a huge database and check if there’s a certain match. That’s what I’ll do in the next hashes.
I’ll use the website hashes.com:
Hashes
Here I’ll put the hashes with the corresponding answer in a code block:
48bb6e862e54f2a795ffc4e541caed4d
easyCBFDAC6008F9CAB4083784CBD1874F76618D2A97
password1231C8BFE8F801D79745C4631D09FFF36C82AA37FC4CCE4FC946683D7B336B63032
letmein$2y$12$Dwt1BZj6pcyc3Dy1FWZ5ieeUznr71EeNkJkUlypTsgbX1H68wsRom
bleh279412f945939ba78ce0758d3fd83daa
Eternity22F09EDCB1FCEFC6DFB23DC3505A882655FF77375ED8AA2D1C13F640FCCC2D0C85
paule1DFECA0C002AE40B8619ECF94819CC1B
n63umy8lkf4i$6$aReallyHardSalt$6WKUTqzq.UQQmrm0p/T7MPpMbGNnzXPMAXi4bJMl9be.cfi3/qxIf.hsGpS41BqMhSrHVXgMpdjS6xeKZAs02.
waka99e5d8870e5bdd26602cab8dbe07a942c8669e56d6
481616481616