Applied Network Security

The method

We are going to perform what's called a brute-force attack or brute-force cracking. Brute-force attacks are used for cracking encrypted data such as passwords and other encrypted data. It does this by trying to guess a password. It tries as many combinations as possible until the password is cracked. Imagine you are trying to access a door with a code lock and you don't know how many digits are in the access code, you start with zero and work your way up until you find the code. This would be exhausting to do, but with brute-force attacks this process is automated. It just takes time to complete, but they are considered infallible.