Brute Forcer

A brute forcer is a cracking program that uses the cryptographic method of brute force. This involves traversing the search space of possible keys until the proper combination has been found. Depending on the number of characters in the password, this can take a long time. The resources required to crack a password expand exponentially with key size, not linearly. As a result, doubling the key size for an algorithm does not simply double the required number of operations, but rather squares them.