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BRUTE FORCE ATTACK

Specialty Definition: BRUTE FORCE ATTACK

Domain	Definition
Computing	Brute force attack A method of breaking a cipher (that is, to decrypt a specific encrypted text) by trying every possible key. The quicker the brute force attack, the weaker the cipher. Feasibility of brute force attack depends on the key length of the cipher, and on the amount of computational power available to the attacker. Brute force attack is impossible against the ciphers with variable-size key, such as a one-time pad cipher. Breaking ciphers with many workstations (http://www.distributed.net/projects.html.en). (2000-01-16). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRUTE FORCE ATTACK

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
brute force attack	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Alternative Orthography: BRUTE FORCE ATTACK

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 52 55 54 45 46 4F 52 43 45 41 54 54 41 43 4B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010010 01010101 01010100 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000011 01000101 00100000 01000001 01010100 01010100 01000001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#85 &#84 &#69 &#32 &#70 &#79 &#82 &#67 &#69 &#32 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#65 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0055 0054 0045 0046 004F 0052 0043 0045 0041 0054 0054 0041 0043 004B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3652555439240495237392355454353745

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