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Potato, potato. Does anybody really say “bruteforce” not meaning a dictionary attack?


Yes, plenty. It's not great for passwords, (but sometimes it still is! Sometimes sites using MD5 still get popped) but there's plenty of other problem spaces where brute forcing still means brute forcing.


Sorry, forgot to clarify! Yeah, the context matters here: if you’re cracking something like a numeric PIN, or looking for something like a hash collision, you might want to iterate through all possible solutions, randomly or sequentially.


The author of the article, apparently.




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