A ____ attack exhausts all possible keys to decrypt a password.
A) Trojan horse
B) keylogger
C) dictionary
D) brute force

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A brute force attack systematically tries all possible key combinations to decrypt a password. It can take a long time to complete but eventually will exhaust all possible combinations and crack the password. Dictionary attacks, on the other hand, use a pre-compiled list of commonly used passwords to try and guess the correct one, while Trojan horse attacks and keyloggers are different types of malicious software rather than specific types of password attacks.

A ____ Attack Exhausts All Possible Keys to Decrypt a Password