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.

fail2ban not banning ssh bruteforce but regex works

I've just noticed an ssh bruteforce at my server, which actually should have been banned by fail2ban, but for …

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Delete all lines not containing string in Sublime

I recently got a bruteforce on my website, and wanted to write it down somewhere. The bad new is that …

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BFMatcher knnMatch

I try to implement knnMatch on BFMatcher as follows: BFMatcher matcher(NORM_L2, true); vector<DMatch> matches; //matcher.…

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What is the best Distributed Brute Force countermeasure?

First, a little background: It is no secret that I am implementing an auth+auth system for CodeIgniter, and so …

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Preventing Brute Force Logins on Websites

As a response to the recent Twitter hijackings and Jeff's post on Dictionary Attacks, what is the best way to …

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Tomcat Hack Attempt: Attempt was made to authenticate the locked user

Jun 28, 2013 1:04:27 AM org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm authenticate WARNING: An attempt was made to authenticate the locked user "admin" Jun 28, 2013 1:04:27 …

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Brute forcing DES with a weak key

I am taking a course on Cryptography and am stuck on an assignment. The instructions are as follows: The plaintext …

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Generating every character combination up to a certain word length

I am doing a security presentation for my Computer and Information Security course in a few weeks time, and in …

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Throttling brute force login attacks in Django

Are there generally accepted tactics for protecting Django applications against this kind of attack?

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PHP brute force password generator

I want to be able to input a number and get a password, built from a string or unique characters. …

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