People have been working on perfecting hashing since computing's early days. The result has been an almost endless number of hashing methods and tables. Facebook has faced this problem as well. Within ...

A rainbow table is a large, precomputed table designed to cache the output of cryptographic hash functions to decrypt hashed passwords into plaintext. Rainbow tables were invented by IT expert ...

I want to have a very large hash table, i.e. so big it won't fit into memory. What's a good way to do that? I could use a database, but since it's only going to be key => value pairs that I am storing ...