Brute force attack

Brute force attack

An attack by a malicious user or malicious software on a computer or operating system to find a secret password or a symmetric encryption key by guessing passwords or keys until the correct password or key is discovered.

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Industry/Domain: Computer
Category: Components; Software development
Company: Microsoft
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brute-force attack

Software; Anti virus

A brute-force attack is an attack in which each possible key or password is attempted until the correct one is found. Also see: attack.

brute-force attack

Telecommunications; General telecom

In security, an attack that requires trying all (or a large fraction of all) possible values until the right value is found. Synonym exhaustive attack.

brute-force attack

Internet; Internet security

A hacking method used to find passwords or encryption keys by trying every possible combination of characters until the correct one is found.

brute force attack

Computer; Components; Software development

An attack by a malicious user or malicious software on a computer or operating system to find a secret password or a symmetric encryption key by guessing passwords or keys until ...

brute force attack

Software; Operating systems

An attack by a malicious user or malicious software on a computer or operating system to find a secret password or a symmetric encryption key by guessing passwords or keys until ...

brute force attack

Mathematics; General mathematics

A brute force attack is a cryptanalytic attack that consists of systematically checking all possible keys or passwords until the correct one is found.

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