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Interesting stuff. I guess it gets in to what counts as a a brute force, as most of the brute force attacks I've seen (e.g. password cracking) lean pretty heavi
by remus 3y ago
Interesting stuff. I guess it gets in to what counts as a a brute force, as most of the brute force attacks I've seen (e.g. password cracking) lean pretty heavily on clever maths and statistical hacks to reduce the search space as much as possible.
- DSMan195276 3y agoThat's fair, there's probably more gray area in the definition than I suggested. I think the difference to me is that this is exploiting a weakness in the encryption itself rather than just guessing what the likely combination is. For password cracking, you're typically not exploiting the encryption but rather what passwords are more likely to be used than others.