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		Scaevolus on June 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs Anonymization projects should really invest in an hour of consulting time with a cryptographer-- they would be able to see these flaws instantly. Nit: this is a lookup table, not a rainbow table. Rainbow tables involve a clever optimization that compresses multiple passwords (in a chain) into a single entry in the table, saving a great amount of disk space.

harywilke on June 22, 2014 [–]

Thanks for your nit. I always wrongly associated rainbow tables with the Rainbow Codes the British used to name their military projects. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

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