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by terangdom 5116 days ago
They usually use less than one bit per password.
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People here don't know what rainbow tables are. If you asked them to build a rainbow table, you'd get... a table. (You're right.)
Thank you for the contentless comment. Instead, you might consider offering a more interesting algorithm, its tradeoffs, and why it is beneficial to take more computation time?
A rainbow table doesn't store every hash for the password space it's built for. I'm sure you already knew that, but decided to pretend otherwise when calculating the size of one.