#CRACK TRUECRYPT CODE#
#CRACK TRUECRYPT PASSWORD#

Assuming a 5x cost/hash reduction would grab us at $8k which would be in the range of hobbyists.īeyond this, several private companies have been able to build double SHA-256 ASICs (for bitcoin mining). There are also speedy MD5 FPGA cores, I've not got a great reference but found one from 2007 which did 44MHash / core using a Cyclone II which I can only find described as 'built for low cost'. You can get ~ twice the hashes/$ so maybe $40k, and if you're cheap about the computers you connect with then probably lower.īut that's consumer kit. That puts us easily within the range of governments, companies and just generally rich geeks. That means we'd need 42 cards to crack it in a week, costing somewhere in the region of $80k (1.5k/card + extras).

#CRACK TRUECRYPT PASSWORD#

And I only have to do this once and I forever gain the capability to break any 9 character (and below) password with just a lookup.Īnd that's assuming that MD5 is a perfectly secure hash with no shortcuts allowing you to narrow down the input set.Ī new AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 is pretty speedy, clocking in at 23GHash for single MD5 (there are cheaper per $, but this is extremely impressive imo). In 1997.īut if I were to throw some purpose built hardware at this problem or use the video card to speed this up and not just laptops with general purpose CPU's, it's very likely I could decrease this time by thousands of times.Īt the end I's have all MD5's for all passwords, and now the problem becomes a rainbow table lookup. But if I were a government, maybe I'd get a few thousand laptops together and set about calculating this over the next five years or so.

95^9 = 630249409724609375 possibilities.ĭivide by 250 million, and we get about 2520997639 times ten minutes for the time it would take me to enumerate all possible plain text passwords. You didn't specify what counts as a character, but let's assume it's a printable ASCII character.

#CRACK TRUECRYPT CODE#

Using non-optimized, managed code on my laptop, I just went through 250 million iterations of plain text in ten minutes.

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