The systematic, exhaustive testing of all possible methods that can be used to break a security system. For example, in cryptanalysis, trying all possible keys in the keyspace to decrypt a ciphertext. See dictionary attack. See also brute force programming.
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- Software downloads 2009-11-04
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
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- Software downloads 2009-07-27
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- Software downloads 2009-07-20
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- Software downloads 2009-06-25
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- Software downloads 2009-06-05
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- Blog posts 2009-05-19
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- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
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- Blog posts 2009-04-29
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- White papers 2009-04-27
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- Software downloads 2009-04-19
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- Blog posts 2009-03-25
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