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  2. Mastermind (board game) - Wikipedia

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    4 Only valid words may be used as the pattern and guessed each turn. Mini Mastermind: 1976 6 4 Travel-sized version; room for only six guesses Number Mastermind: 1976 6 digits 4 Uses numbers instead of colors. The codemaker may optionally give, as an extra clue, the sum of the digits. Electronic Mastermind (Invicta) 1977 10 digits 3, 4, or 5

  3. List of the most common passwords - Wikipedia

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    Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year. In the 2016 edition, the 25 most common passwords made up more than 10% of the surveyed passwords, with the most common password of 2016, "123456", making up 4%. [ 5 ]

  4. Safe-cracking - Wikipedia

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    Lock manipulation is a damage-free, combination-based method. A well known surreptitious bypass technique, it requires knowledge of the device and well developed touch, along with the senses of sight and possibly sound. While manipulation of combination locks is usually performed on Group 2 locks, many Group 1 locks are also susceptible.

  5. There's a secret code thieves use to break into hotel room safes

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    In the video, you see the user place a bottle of whiskey into the safe. He closes the door to the safe, inputs a 4-digit passcode followed by "lock."

  6. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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    In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of guessing passwords [1] protecting a computer system. A common approach (brute-force attack) is to repeatedly try guesses for the password and to check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password. [2] Another type of approach is password spraying, which ...

  7. Password strength - Wikipedia

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    Password strength is specified by the amount of information entropy, which is measured in shannon (Sh) and is a concept from information theory. It can be regarded as the minimum number of bits necessary to hold the information in a password of a given type.

  8. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

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    A brute-force attack is a cryptanalytic attack that can, in theory, be used to attempt to decrypt any encrypted data (except for data encrypted in an information-theoretically secure manner). [1] Such an attack might be used when it is not possible to take advantage of other weaknesses in an encryption system (if any exist) that would make the ...

  9. Eric Adams and the missing password: Feds say NYC mayor ... - AOL

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    Everyone forgets a password now and then, but prosecutors say NYC Mayor Eric Adams changed his phone's code to thwart the FBI.