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dictionary attack
(I) An attack that uses a brute-force technique of successively
trying all the words in some large, exhaustive list.
(C) For example, an attack on an authentication service by trying
all possible passwords; or an attack on encryption by encrypting
some known plaintext phrase with all possible keys so that the key
for any given encrypted message containing that phrase may be
obtained by lookup.
