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by ChebZz on February 16th, 2004

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What is a dictionary attack?

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  • by h8siam on May 31st, 2004

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    An attack in which an attacker tries known words in the dictionary and numerous common password names in an attempt to "guess" the password. Because most users prefer easily remembered passwords, dictionary attacks are often a shortcut to finding a password in significantly less time than key search (brute force) attacks would take to find the same password.

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  • by ChebZz on February 16th, 2004

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    A method used to break security systems, specifically password-based security systems, in which the attacker systematically tests all possible passwords beginning with words that have a higher possibility of being used, such as names and places. The word “dictionary” refers to the attacker exhausting all of the words in a dictionary in an attempt to discover the password. Dictionary attacks are typically done with software instead of an individual manually trying each password.

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