Both are encrypted, password protected safes for complex passwords, and will generate random strings of alphanumeric text nearly impossible to
crack by brute force methods.
Then, figuring that Snowden was savvy enough to use encryption that couldn't be
cracked by brute force, the government also demanded that Levison hand over Lavabit's private encryption key — something the Justice Department has threatened to demand of Apple (aapl) as well.
Not exact matches
The sheer number of possibilities for each move render it practically impossible to
crack by brute -
force computing, which is where DeepMind's AlphaGo comes in.
These passwords can only be broken down
by brute force attacks, and even those would take years, decades, or centuries to
crack it.
It's incredibly hard for both humans and machines to
crack (dictionary attacks will be thrown off
by the words having no logical connection, length will make
brute force attacks take forever).
A modern computer can
crack a DVD's CSS encryption through
brute force — that is,
by trying every possible key and seeing which one works — in just a few seconds.