dictionary attack
Sign in to savetechnique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by trying hundreds or sometimes millions of likely possibilities, such as words in a dictionary
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- method
- Subclass of
- brute-force attack
- Image
- John the Ripper example-quick.png
- Has use
- password cracking
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