How To Install rainbowcrack on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbowcrack on Kali Linux.

What is rainbowcrack

rainbowcrack is:

RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique. It crack hashes with rainbow tables.

RainbowCrack uses time-memory tradeoff algorithm to crack hashes. It differs from the hash crackers that use brute force algorithm.

There are three methods to install rainbowcrack on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install rainbowcrack Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install rainbowcrack using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install rainbowcrack

Install rainbowcrack Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rainbowcrack using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rainbowcrack

Install rainbowcrack Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install rainbowcrack using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rainbowcrack

How To Uninstall rainbowcrack on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rainbowcrack package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rainbowcrack

Uninstall rainbowcrack And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rainbowcrack and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rainbowcrack

Remove rainbowcrack Configurations and Data

To remove rainbowcrack configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rainbowcrack

Remove rainbowcrack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove rainbowcrack configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rainbowcrack

Dependencies

rainbowcrack have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libstdc++6

References

• rainbowcrack website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbowcrack package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.