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Can you provide explanation on how to compute that? Thanks.


Naively, I get 3 exabytes.

(50^10 + smaller terms) * 256 bits (SHA256 size) Number of hashes * size of hash to store.

Obviously this isn't how it's actually done. The best page I found describing the process is: http://www.freerainbowtables.com/en/faq/

The forum is fascinating: http://www.freerainbowtables.com/phpBB3/uncracked-hashes-f23...


It's probably just the number of permutations times the length of each hash.




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