From: Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27@0x01b.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Forgot dm-crypt password; suggestions on steps to undertake
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:56:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528279DD.3020503@0x01b.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528244FD.4060109@gmail.com>
On 11/12/2013 08:10 AM, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 03:58 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
>> It didn't make sense to me to do it using libcryptsetup because the bottleneck
>> was the actual decryption attempt.
>
> The example I posted link to is using common context and arbitrary number
> of processes (default is number of CPU cores) which run in parallel
> (hash iterations can easily run in parallel on different CPUs)
> So every process tries n-th line in candidate password file.
>
> This is the advantage (plus save some negligible initialization time),
> otherwise script is fine of course.
>
I read up from his message and missed your link. I'll keep that handy =) It's
not that I have a horrible memory, I just occasionally don't use a volume for
many months or even years at a time.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-12 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-09 21:48 [dm-crypt] Forgot dm-crypt password; suggestions on steps to undertake John Thoe
2013-11-09 22:51 ` Arno Wagner
2013-11-10 0:15 ` John Thoe
2013-11-10 1:03 ` Milan Broz
2013-11-10 16:26 ` Arno Wagner
2013-11-11 2:25 ` John Thoe
2013-11-11 3:13 ` Arno Wagner
2013-11-11 5:51 ` Milan Broz
2013-11-12 14:58 ` Matthew Monaco
2013-11-12 15:10 ` Milan Broz
2013-11-12 18:56 ` Matthew Monaco [this message]
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