Intrusion Detection Systems: Re: brute force

From: Marcus J. Ranum <mjr_at_nfr.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:25:51 -0400

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>Im looking for a fast and efficient brute force algorithm

Brute force for _what_ purpose?

The term "brute force" characterizes the elegance of an
algorithm, it doesn't describe what the algorithm _does_.
So you might be talking about brute force searching, brute
force decryption, brute force sorting, whatever.

Here's a simple (and efficient and fast) brute force
algorithm that doesn't do much. ;) It parallelizes pretty
well, too!

main()
{
while(1)
;
}

mjr.
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Received on Jun 30 2000