Brute Force and Dictionary were the two types of attack performed in the Cain and Abel application to crack user account passwords. Brute force is different from dictionary attack because of the large proportion key space is being searched systematically. It checks all possible keys until the correct one is found. However, there is a downfall with this method because it takes much longer (hours, day, etc. depending on the password length) because of all of the possible key entries. The dictionary attack uses a targeted technique of trying all the words in an exhaustive list (wordlist). Dictionary attacks do not take as long as brute forcing attack is because it only tries possibilities that are most likely to succeed. One advantage to dictionary
