Password Glossary

Browse 2 password terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Password Terms

Brute Force

Brute Force is an attack method that systematically tries every possible combination of a password, encryption key, or other secret value until the correct one...

Key Derivation Function

A function that derives one or more cryptographic keys from a secret value (password, passphrase). Password-hashing KDFs (bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2) are...

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