Brut used in a sentence

Brut in a sentence as an adjective

It's derived from French "brut", meaning "raw", as in "raw concrete".

Just to emphasize this, the term "brutalist" derives from the French "brut", not English "brutal".

Your salary is then 2000€ "brut", which amounts 1650€ "net".Public PhD funding almost always stays at this level of salary.

So sure, just as I can expect to get brut-forced if I choose a pin of 0000, I can get brute forced if I choose a passphrase of 'and the in'.

But I've never understood why it is so difficult to simply thwart brut-force attacks by setting limits on how many times a password can be entered.

I am not entirely familiar with modern day algorithms behind brut force attacks, but the math I described above is the theory behind them.

> So in essence any hash that can be run faster in any way will make it weaker in terms of brut forcingHash functions have many, many uses beyond password storage.

Although both words derive from the same Latin word brutus, that word means both "heavy" and "stupid", with the French word deriving from the former and the English word deriving from the latter.

That’s undoubtedly true, but brut force password cracking is something that banks have a relatively easy time of detecting and defeating, so one could argue that the length/char limitations are not as big a problem.

I live with less that those 60k$/42k and I can afford a nice middle class life in the middle of Paris plus vacations every year ...PS: actually if you look at french job offers, you will see "brut" and/or "net" salaries, brut is pre employee's taxes, net is post.