On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 21:15 +0100, Łukasz Posadowski wrote:
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:23:50 +0100
Jerome Lille <jerome.lille(a)ownbay.net>:
> I've got it now running. But I'm wondering if 1.5 password tries
> per
> second is normal? I've given it several threads, but it doesn't
> seem
> to make any difference. The disc is connected over USB.
It could take around 10 years at this pace. You can dd that disk into
a
file on a hard drive. You will have much faster read times. Be
prepared
that brute force takes time, even on a very fast, 24-like core
machine.
If you want to make it quick, You could find a promo code to Linode,
od
Digital Ocean, rent 8 core VM with big disk and hope it will crack it
before money from the promotion code expires.
Fortunately the character set for the missing last four characters were
quite small. So my desktop could brute force it in a day.
I just thought it was strange that I couldn't do better than around 1.5
tries per second. Even though I moved the target disk image from usb to
a sata3 ssd on the desktop. And how many threads I configured didn't
seem to matter either.
/Jerome