Wordlist & Rainbow Table Tool
Abstract: Developed a high-performance command-line (CLI) tool in Go to generate rainbow tables from custom wordlists for security auditing purposes.
The Challenge
In security auditing and research, a rainbow table is a precomputed lookup table used for reversing cryptographic hash functions. Generating these tables from large wordlists can be a computationally intensive and time-consuming process. The challenge was to create a simple, fast, and efficient command-line tool to automate this process.
The Solution
I developed a high-performance CLI tool using the Go programming language. Go was specifically chosen for its excellent performance as a compiled language and its strong support for concurrency, making it ideal for this processing-heavy task.
Key Features
- High Performance: Built with Go to ensure fast and efficient processing of large wordlist files.
- Flexible Input: The tool was designed to be versatile, accepting wordlists piped directly from the command line or processed in batches from
.txtfiles. - Standalone Executable: As a compiled Go application, the tool was a single, portable executable with no external dependencies, making it easy to use in any environment.
This project was a practical application of my Go programming skills to create a specialized and effective tool for a security-related task.