• fubo@lemmy.world
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis

    In cryptography, rubber-hose cryptanalysis is a euphemism for the extraction of cryptographic secrets (e.g. the password to an encrypted file) from a person by coercion or torture—such as beating that person with a rubber hose, hence the name—in contrast to a mathematical or technical cryptanalytic attack.

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      There’s also just the social engineering side of it. I guessed my father’s door code just because I know his birthdate.