#7 Password attacks

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plain text

unencrypted in the clear, no encryption

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Hashing a password

hashes represent data as a fixed-length string of text

one-way trip, impossible to recover the original message from the digest

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brute force

try every possible password combination until the hash is matched

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dictionary attack

uses a dictionary to find common words created by humans and also can substitute letters for numbers and symbols