Rat king (disambiguation)

A rat king is a rare phenomenon where a group of rats' tails become entangled.

Rat King or Ratking may also refer to:

Fictional characters

Music

Other uses

gollark: If you do *not* use that, then people can store a bunch of precalculated mappings from hashes to original passwords (rainbow tables, yes) and work out the original.
gollark: That's why salts are recommended (they're a bit of extra data you store along with the password and feed to the hash function when hashing it in the first place and comparing passwords with the hash).
gollark: The main attack on this is that you can, sometimes even using dedicated ASICs/FPGAs, run hashes *very fast* on a lot of possibilities and figure out what the original password was.
gollark: Yep!
gollark: The point is that for one hashed input you always have the same output, so you can compare values without storing what they originally were.

See also

  • "The King of Rats", a short story prequel set in the world of the young adult trilogy The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
  • King Rat (disambiguation)
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