Solutions to problems in Python3

Protecting_Passwords/intelburn_check_recovered.py

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+#This was created by intelburn for a Code With Me challenge
+#Open the file with all of the recovered hashes
+with open("recovered_password_hashes.txt", "r") as hashes:
+    #Open the csv formatted rainbow table
+    with open("rainbow_table.txt", "r") as rainbow:
+        #create a dict for all of the hashes and paintext passwords
+        solutions={}
+        #loop through the lines in the rainbow table
+        for line in rainbow.readlines():
+            #make an array of the line with the hash in position 0 and the plaintext in position 1
+            #remove any trailing newlines
+            entry=line.rstrip().split(",")
+            #add the array to the dict
+            solutions[entry[0]]=entry[1]
+        #loop through the lines in the recovered passwords
+        for line in hashes.readlines():
+            #Remove the trailing newline from the recovered password hash
+            password=line.rstrip()
+            #check if the recovered hash is in the rainbow table
+            if password in solutions:
+                #print the hash and plaintext
+                print(password+" "+solutions[password])
+            #No match found
+            else:
+                #print that there is no match
+                print("Hash {0} not in table".format(password))

Protecting_Passwords/intelburn_rainbow_table.py

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+#This was created by intelburn for a Code With Me challenge
+#Import HashLib for the MD5 hashing capability
+import hashlib
+#open the dictionary file
+with open("plaintext_passwords.txt", "r") as candidates:
+    #Open the file for the future rainbow table
+    with open("rainbow_table.txt", "w") as rainbow:
+        #Loop through the lines in dictionary
+        for line in candidates.readlines():
+            #This line does multiple things in one line the next comments will go into the what the line is doing
+            #First rainbow.write will write the contents of the argument into the file
+            #hashlib.md5 will calculate the contents on the argument
+            #line.rstrip() will remove the trailing newline
+            #.encode() will encode the line for hashlib.md5
+            #.hexdigest returns the human readable version of the hash
+            #Then append a , and the content of the line from the plaintext
+            rainbow.write(hashlib.md5(line.rstrip().encode()).hexdigest()+","+line)