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Synonyms for attack

to start work on vigorously

Synonyms

a method used in dealing with something

a sudden and often acute manifestation of a disease

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Synonyms for attack

an offensive move in a sport or game

intense adverse criticism

ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase

the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)

take the initiative and go on the offensive

begin to injure

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* Dictionary attack resistance: CE is vulnerable to dictionary attacks.
[14] User anonymity [check] [check] User being tracked [check] X Sensor anonymity [check] X User anonymity to sensor X [check] Loss of synchronization [check] X With timestamp X X Offline dictionary attack X X Computation cost (ms) 29.9432 29.424 Communication cost (bytes) 564 624 Security feature Chang and Le [11] Chen et al.
Dictionary attacks only work when your password consists of a single word.
* attack_passthrough indicates it is a dictionary attack.
Accordingly, neither the man-in-the-middle attack nor the offline dictionary attack described in this work can be captured in the proof model.
The SRP protocol fulfills the following properties: it allows mutual authentication between the server and the client (server explicitly authenticates the client and vice-versa), it is resistant to online and offline dictionary attacks mounted by an eavesdropper, and it does not require a trusted third party (no PKI infrastructure is needed).
updates Distributed Password Recovery with dictionary attacks and a password cache, making near-instant recovery of strong encryption keys possible.
This gives me an excellent starting point for password guessing and dictionary attacks. I can also map out your Windows domain, discover your server names and even see what hardware you' re using.
Stegdetect and Stegbreak, developed by Niels Provos (free source code available at www.outguess.com), for example, allow you to detect the technology in images and launch a dictionary attack, respectively.
Dictionary Attack Protection denies access to IP addresses that make frequent repeated invalid login attempts.