Principles of Information Security (MindTap Course List)
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Brute-force attack:
It is a method to attack the encrypted data such as passwords or DES key until the data is decoded. This attack attempted by the combination of letters, symbols, and numbers to find the password and it requires more time when the password is too long.
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