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In cryptanalysis and computer security, a dictionary attack is an attack using a restricted subset of a keyspace to defeat a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase, sometimes trying thousands or millions of likely possibilities often obtained from lists of past security breaches. Wikipedia

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An attempt to guess a password by systematically trying every word in a dictionary as the password. This attack is usually automated, using a dictionary of the hacker's choosing, which may include both ordinary words and jargon, names, and slang. OmegaWiki

An attack that uses a list of words (from a dictionary) to try and guess passwords or decryption keys. Wiktionary

An attack that uses a list of words from a dictionary. Wiktionary (translation)

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