On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 20:14 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 08:57 +0100, Jerome Lille wrote: > > 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. > > What were you trying that many time (you mentioned disc encryption, > root and main user). If you're trying to login, there could be > throttling to counter brute force attacks. If you're trying > decryption, it could simply be the time to try decrypting it and > checking if it worked. > > i.e. It's the probably the response time, rather than the attempts. I was using this tool that was mentioned earlier in the conversation https://github.com/glv2/bruteforce-luks /Jerome _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx