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- Brute Force: Method to crack the key is to sequentially test keys until you find the right one, is usually slow, resource consuming and often infeasible.

- Encrypt: To apply a mathematical algorithm that aims to theoretically impossible to read a message.

- Charset: Set of characters that can get to write to a key (eg, lowercase, uppercase, spaces, numbers, special characters, the whole spectrum ASCII).

- Ciphertext: Message after being encrypted.

- Cracking: In cryptography, a ciphertext crack, means finding your own plaintext without the decryption key. If one speaks of a Hash, involves finding an input value of the Hash function that results in the hash that is trying to crack.

- Cryptography: The science that studies the different ways to hide information or make it unreadable to anyone who should not read it.

- Symmetric cryptography: a cryptographic method which uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt messages.

- As-symmetric cryptography or Public Key Cryptography is a method in which a key used to encrypt (known as public key) and one to decrypt (known as private key).

- Decoding: Apply a mathematical algorithm that aims to make legible return an encrypted message.

- Steganography: is the discipline in which they study and apply techniques that allow the hiding of messages or objects, within others, called carriers, so you do not notice their existence.

- Hash: well-defined mathematical function having as input any size and type of data and output as a string value of defined size. In order to be considered a hash algorithm must meet the following requirements:
- Low computational cost: It should be easily calculable.
- Deterministic: For the same input value, there must be a single output value.
- Uniform: The output values ​​must be distributed evenly.
- No reverse: It should not be possible to reverse the hash algorithm.

- Infeasible: syntax used to describe events that are theoretically possible, but the amount of time or resources to achieve those facts, so that it exceeds them extremely impractical.

- Plaintext: Message before being encrypted.

- Rainbow table: They are lookup tables that allow a memory-space sharing in the cracking of Hash's. That is, pre-calculated hashes and placed on a table, these tables, usually large, compared with the hash you're trying to crack.

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Nice glossary, it will help members new to encryption.

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Thank you for reading this stuff.