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.

Longest common subsequence (LCS) brute force algorithm

I want to create a brute force algorithm to find the largest common subsequence between 2 strings, but I'm struggling to …

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Number of attempts to brute force an average password / non intrusive yet meaningful limits?

There are several useful answers on SO regarding prevention of brute forcing a password of a web service by applying …

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Brute force attack failsafe login in asp.net

I just read an article saying that passwords with 7 characters are no longer safe. However, if the server increases the …

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Solving crosswords

I have a crossword puzzle and a list of words which can be used to solve it (words can be …

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Test only password on rar archive

I'm trying to do a bruteforce attack on a rar archive and I need the password-check to be as fast …

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