Passwords - Brute-Force Method

- Attempt to generate every possible combination of characters and digits
- Leads always to the used password but is a matter of time and compute power
- Total exhaust time is 968 or 252, the average effort for a search is half of this

Solution 1:
- Delaying password rejection for a few seconds will increase the needed time extremely
Solution 2:
- Allowing only three attempts to login (but enables therefore DoS-Attack)

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