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brute force
(I) A cryptanalysis technique or other kind of attack method
involving an exhaustive procedure that tries all possibilities,
one-by-one.
(C) For example, for ciphertext where the analyst already knows
the decryption algorithm, a brute force technique to finding the
original plaintext is to decrypt the message with every possible
key.
