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every possible key a lock could have, before you try a single one.
means the complete set of all values a cryptographic key could take, which determines how long brute force actually takes.
from from cryptography and combinatorics, formalized as computers made counting every possible key a real threat instead of a thought experiment.
size mathone extra bit doubles the whole keyspace.
aes-256keyspace exceeds atoms in the observable universe.
brute forceattackers search keyspace, not your password's cleverness.
weak keyspacereused patterns shrink effective search space drastically.