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July 07, 2012, 08:28:51 AM
 #21

If any value in the rainbow table produces the same hash as your passphrase for any one of the thousands of hashing rounds that is a collision.  Once a collision occurs any subsequent rounds will always produce identical hashes.  

That would be very serious flaw in sha algorithm.
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