Meaning Of "brute Force"

[Guest davis]

just a question...

what does it mean when you talk about "brute force"

thanx

davis

[PuNkDuDe]

brute force n keygen is when you use random generation of strings to find a match for serial.

ie; you might have in an application a bunch of MD5 hashed keys, the app will hash yours and check if it matches any of the stored. You cannot De-Hash a string back to original state, so you code a brute forcer to try and find a correct match of any of the MD5'd keys.

there is no real reverse engineering of the algo.

[Loki]

Basically, try every possible combination until one matches. This obviously means the faster the computer the better.

[Guest davis]

thanks Loki and PuNKDuDe