In cryptanalysis and computer security, a dictionary attack is an attack using a restricted subset of a keyspace to defeat a cipher or authentication mechanism...
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up attack in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Attack may refer to: Attack (fencing) Charge (warfare) Offensive (military) Strike (attack) The Attack (novel)...
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brute force. The attack is usually carried out by way of a standard dictionary attack, where valid e-mail addresses are found by brute force guessing valid...
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short passwords, but for longer passwords other methods such as the dictionary attack are used because a brute-force search takes too long. Longer passwords...
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system Dictionary (data structure), an abstract data type for a set of pairs Dictionary attack, a technique to determine a password Dictionary (software)...
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John the Ripper (section Attack types)
use is the dictionary attack. It takes text string samples (usually from a file, called a wordlist, containing words found in a dictionary or real passwords...
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vulnerable to a dictionary attack. Crack was the first standalone password cracker for Unix systems and the first to introduce programmable dictionary generation...
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information associated with the PPP session. The attacker can then mount an offline dictionary attack in order to obtain the original password. When used...
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language dictionary—especially one available as electronic input to a software program—the passphrase is rendered more vulnerable to dictionary attack. This...
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Secure Remote Password protocol (section Offline bruteforce attack with server-first messaging in the absence of key verification)
information to be able to brute-force guess a password or apply a dictionary attack without further interactions with the parties for each guess. Furthermore...
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uses flaws in Windows OS software (MS08-067 / CVE-2008-4250) and dictionary attacks on administrator passwords to propagate while forming a botnet, and...
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Jeffersonian Republicans, attacked the man, labeling him mad for such an undertaking. Scholars have long seen Webster's 1844 dictionary to be an important resource...
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password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. Cryptanalysis attacks were done via rainbow tables which...
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The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New...
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Password cracking (category Cryptographic attacks)
taken up by script kiddies. Brute-force attack Cold boot attack Dictionary attack Password strength Smudge attack oclHashcat-lite – advanced password recovery...
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force attack against an authentication mechanism, such as a password. While a dictionary attack might involve trying each word in a dictionary as the...
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Man-in-the-middle attack Man-on-the-side attack Meet-in-the-middle attack Length extension attack Replay attack Pre-play attack Dictionary attack Biclique attack Denial-of-service...
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Aircrack-ng (category Cryptographic attacks)
because some implementations of WEP derive the key from a password, dictionary attacks are easier than pure brute force. In May 2001, William A. Arbaugh...
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Hashcat (section Attack types)
multiple attack modes for obtaining effective and complex coverage over a hash's keyspace. These modes are: Brute-force attack Combinator attack Dictionary attack...
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August 2019. "Cisco LEAP dictionary password guessing". ISS. Retrieved 2008-03-03. "Cisco Security Notice: Dictionary Attack on Cisco LEAP Vulnerability"...
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attack. A related method, rather more efficient in most cases, is a dictionary attack. In a dictionary attack, all words in one or more dictionaries are...
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DaveGrohl (section Attack methods)
supports both dictionary and incremental attacks. A dictionary attack will scan through a number of pre-defined wordlists while an incremental attack will count...
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on...
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Draw a Secret (section Graphical Dictionary Attacks)
or "Points-of-interest" in a grid or background image, a graphical dictionary attack can be initiated to guess users' passwords . Other factors such as...
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Hydra works by using different approaches, such as brute-force attacks and dictionary attacks, in order to guess the right username and password combination...
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password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol that is secure against off-line dictionary attacks. A ZKPP prevents any party from verifying guesses for the password...
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commonly unchanged. Even when altered, many are guessed quickly through dictionary attacks, since most consumer grade routers don't introduce timing penalties...
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e., remains unrevealed) to an eavesdropper preventing an off-line dictionary attack. The protocol can be used in a wide variety of applications including...
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malicious connections, as well as reducing the likelihood of a successful dictionary attack. Fail2Ban can perform multiple actions whenever an abusive IP address...
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perform a trivial dictionary attack to find ownership of resources, [2] someone with a URI can perform a trivial dictionary attack to find an email address...
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