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A hand-picked, annotated list of Web resources about Brute force attack.
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The classic paper by Blaze, Diffie, Rivest, Schneier, Shimomura, Thompson & Wiener Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security, 1996, on key sizes required to resist brute force attacks is available on Schneier's site.

EFF's DES Cracker was a machine designed and built for a fast brute force attack on the Data Encryption Standard. THe book on it, Cracking DES - Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics & Chip Design, 1998, by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ISBN 1-56592-520-3, published by O'Reilly, in online at Cryptome.