Top "Brute-force" questions

In cryptography, a brute-force attack, or exhaustive key search, is a strategy that can, in theory, be used against any encrypted data.

Python Brute Force algorithm

I need to generate every possible combination from a given charset to a given range. Like, charset=list(map(str,"…

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How long to brute force a salted SHA-512 hash? (salt provided)

Here is an algorithm in Java: public String getHash(String password, String salt) throws Exception { String input = password + salt; MessageDigest …

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How to create a Bruteforce password cracker for alphabetical and alphanumerical passwords?

I need to make small programs for school to brute force crack different types of passwords; I'm looking to create …

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Brute force script in Python 3.2

I'm a beginner in writing code and I've started with Python because it seemed the neatest and the easiest to …

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Forgot Keystore password, thinking of Brute-Force detection. will it corrupt the keystore?

I recently realized that I have lost the password to my keystore (or perhaps the keystore got corrupted somehow) It …

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Java all determine elements are same in a list

I am trying to determine to see if all elements in a list are same. such as: (10,10,10,10,10) --> true (10,10,20,30,30) …

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What is the best method to prevent a brute force attack?

I have my login page and of course I want to prevent brute force attacks and cause less delay for …

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AES128 vs AES256 using bruteforce

I came across this: I don't understand how AES128 is stronger than AES256 in a brute force attack, or how …

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The necessity of hiding the salt for a hash

At work we have two competing theories for salts. The products I work on use something like a user name …

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How to generate string for bruteforce attack using batchfile

I have some code which can crack numeric rar file passwords. The code just increments the value of a variable (…

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