Brute force
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Brute force may refer to:
- Brute-force search, a trivial but very general computer problem-solving technique, that consists of systematically enumerating all possible candidates for the solution
- Brute force attack, a method of defeating a cryptographic scheme by trying a large number of possibilities; for example, exhaustively working through all possible keys in order to decrypt a message
- Proof by exhaustion or brute force method, a method of mathematical proof in which the statement to be proved is split into a finite number of cases, and each case is proved separately
- Brute Force (musician), the stage name of Stephen Friedland
- Brute Force (book), a controversial book by historian John Ellis
- , a book by Matt Curtin about cryptography and the social process of computing
- Brute Force (1947 movie), a movie made in 1947
- Brute Force (video game), a video game
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