If encryption is strong and so password cannot be recovered or
removed instantly, dictionary-based attack is the most effective one.
Instead of trying to guess the password by trying every single
possible combination of characters as in a brute-force attack, you
may try every word in a dictionary or multiple-dictionaries until
your password is found. This method is popular because it is well
known that many people use common words as passwords. Dictionaries
with hundreds of thousands of words, as well as specialist, technical
and foreign language dictionaries are available, as are lists of
thousands of words that are often used as passwords such as "qwerty",
"abcdef" etc.
Dictionaries for different languages are available:
- English (~1,475,000 words)
- African (~128,000 words)
- Australian (~80,000 words)
- Brazilian portuguese (~129,000 words)
- Croatian (~28,000 words)
- Czech (~290,000 words)
- Danish (~430,000 words)
- Dutch (~214,000 words)
- Finnish (~253,000 words)
- French (~160,000 words)
- German (~1,110,000 words)
- Hungarian (~17,000 words)
- Italian (~288,000 words)
- Japanese (~115,000 words)
- Norwegian (~118,000 words)
- Polish (~110,000 words)
- Portuguese (~32,000 words)
- Russian (~734,000 words)
- Spanish (~370,000 words)
- Serbian (~49,000 words)
- Swahili (~18,000 words)
- Swedish (~155,000 words)
- Turkish (~25,000 words)
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