Force Attack

Force Attack is a music festival, which is organized every year on the last July weekend in Behnkenhagen in the municipality Süderholz near Rostock. Approximately 50 bands mainly from the genres Punk, Ska, Oi!, Hardcore, Psychobilly and Metal are performing for three days on two stages.

The first Force Attack was organized 1996 in Barth with 26 bands on two days and moved to Benkenhagen in 1999.

Compared to other music festivals, the Force Arrack is rather inexpensive with a ticket price of only 30 € in 2008. Camping is usually included and the first 1,000 orders come with a free festival sampler on CD. Because the festival takes place approximately 15 car minutes from the Baltic Sea a lot of visitors seize the opportunity to take a bath in the sea.

Lineup in 2008

Real McKenzies, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Dritte Wahl, Die Kassierer, The Unseen, Anti Nowhere League, Jeff Dahl, The Bottrops (former Terrorgruppe), Knorkator and many more

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Brute-force attack

In cryptography, a brute-force attack, or exhaustive key search, is a cryptanalytic attack that can, in theory, be used against any encrypted data (except for data encrypted in an information-theoretically secure manner). 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 task easier. It consists of systematically checking all possible keys or passwords until the correct one is found. In the worst case, this would involve traversing the entire search space.

When password guessing, this method is very fast when used to check all short passwords, but for longer passwords other methods such as the dictionary attack are used because of the time a brute-force search takes.

When key guessing for modern crytosystems, the key length used in the cipher determines the practical feasibility of performing a brute-force attack, with longer keys exponentially more difficult to crack than shorter ones. A cipher with a key length of N bits can be broken in a worst-case time proportional to 2^N and an average time of half that. In contrast, even though some historical encryption algorithms have large key space, often no need to apply brute force attack.

Brute force

Brute force may refer to:

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Brute Force (musician)

Stephen Friedland (born September 29, 1940), known as Brute Force ® , is an American singer and songwriter. He wrote and performed with The Tokens in the 1960s and wrote songs for Peggy March, Del Shannon, The Chiffons and The Cyrkle, and others.

He wrote and recorded the LP I, Brute Force – Confections of Love for Columbia Records in 1967. One song on the album, "No Olympian Height", was covered by The Other Voices (produced by Ellie Greenwich and Mike Rashkow) and released on Atlantic Records in 1968. He also recorded and released the album Extemporaneous on BT Puppy Records in 1970. Original copies of this album are scarce and it is now a very collectible disc.

In July 1968 he and friend, Ben Schlossberg Jr., participated in an expedition to swim from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska to Siberia, 50 miles across the Bering Strait. They made it halfway, stopping between Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands.( Life Magazine, September 1968. The Scene/Wales, Alaska, Cold Swim From Here to Tuesday, by John Frook)

Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard

Brute Force (2005, Copernicus Books) is a book by Matt Curtin about cryptography.

In this book, the author accounts his involvement in the DESCHALL Project, mobilizing thousands of personal computers in 1997 in order to meet the challenge to crack a single message encrypted with DES.

This was and remains one of the largest collaborations of any kind on a single project in history.

The message was unencrypted on June 18 and was found to be "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place."

This is also the message of Matt's book. He uses a personal account and a compelling story to reveal to the uninitiated reader some insight into a topic of growing importance which is known for being quite complicated both technically and politically.

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