Brute Force Attack

[RihanDoshi]

does anybody know what is "Brute Force Attack"
it was asked during paper presentation on Firewall
May be the term is related with some mechanisms used by viruses to break through firewall

[sai_cool]

google it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_force_attack

[nvidia]

Originally Posted by sai_cool

google it.

This is not the kind of reply to give when someone asks something. Please avoid this kind of reply next time in the forum

@RihanDoshi:
Its a kind of attact where you can get the password by trying all the possible permutations of a given set of characters.
Its slow but you will get the password.
I dunno how to relate this with FireWalls though...

[Faun]

^^yup explained well

but its highly unlikely to get a password in months and even years if the digits are more than 8 and you cant guess a part of it.

[RihanDoshi]

Originally Posted by anarchist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_force_attack

hi dude
your link was really helpful
thanx

[nvidia]

Originally Posted by T159

^^yup explained well

but its highly unlikely to get a password in months and even years if the digits are more than 8 and you cant guess a part of it.

it can also be used to break some encryption keys also...
But then all this will take a very long time unless you have a super computer
N yeah.. Getting the password through this method is just a dream if the person has a pd of more than 10 letters...
If a person has a password of 10 characters and the characters are alphabets(a-z, only small or capital) then you can try all the permutations possible.
Thats approximately 1.92x10^23
But since most mail services wont allow you to have a password with just small letters, the number of permutations will be much much higher..

[RihanDoshi]

thanx to one and all for your response