How to solve these challenges:

• Write your solution in the terminal and test it.

• If your solution is not correct, then try to understand the error messages, watch the video again, rewrite the solution and test it again. Repeat this step until you get the correct solution.

• Compare your solution to the provided one.

• Save the solution in a file for future reference or recap.

Challenge #1

Using crackstation.net crack the following 2 hashes:

8b7e0bce236ea2c2f5e853bd4f0ce16c4c19c7dd599af997458bdd2046d092bb6d5886ab6978613bab58296a796444bf27f6b87ee11bb355fc3304758054ebdd

373c9b1d16c3f738a5f017e5c1a0e89009ea62c723431c1f6a88a681a03675a9

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Challenge #2

On Kali Linux install rainbowcrack and test the performance of generating rainbow tables for all words having a length between 2 and 5 lower alphabetic characters using SHA-256.

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Challenge #3

Use rtgen and generate SHA-256 rainbow tables for all lower alphabetic words with a length between 2 and 5 characters.

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Challenge #4

Use rtsort and sort the rainbow tables generated at Challenge #3.

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Challenge #5

Calculate the SHA-256 hash of any word having a length between 2 and 5 lower alphabetic characters and crack it using the rainbow tables generated at Challenge #3.

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