What are the differences between Dictionary Attack Brute Force Attack and Hybrid Attack?

Answer 1

• **Brute Force Attack:** Tries every possible character combination to crack credentials.
  

• **Dictionary Attack:** Uses a list of common or likely passwords to guess the correct one.
  

• **Hybrid Attack:** Combines both—starts with dictionary words and adds variations (like numbers or symbols).
  

All three aim to break credentials but use different strategies and speeds.

Answer 2

Brute Force Attack

Brute force basically tries all the possible keys mentioned on the keyboard to decrypt the password or any encrypted message.

Here the question arises why to use all the possible keys?

The answer is user can use any of the buttons on the keyboard to write his/her message or the password

e.g. s0ooraj113/%^&&

Dictionary Attack

Dictionary attack only tries those possibilities that are supposed to be successful, it sort the words by the frequency of the use and then contiguously hits and tries.

It takes less time as that of brute force attack, but it might don't show the result on the basis of using the frequency of words

e.g. names, words or letters which are used.

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Sooraj Oad