Old revisions Add to book Export to PDF Fold/unfold all Book Creator Add this page to your book Book Creator Remove this page from your book Manage book (0 page(s)) Help Brutal attack Also called Brute Force Attack, this term refers to the act of entering all possible values to unlock passwords. As this is a method of only entering one set of combinable strings at a time, it has an accuracy of 100%. However, it also has limits, in that it is not efficient in terms of time and cost. In fact, it would take about 100 years to decrypt an AES128 encryption key using the random entry method.