Our idea is to deploy a society of computational agents that collaborate in order to achieve the shared goal of decrypting a chunk of ciphertext or recovering a password from an hash by means of a dictionary-based attack.
A Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.