Publication Details
On Efficiency of Distributed Password Recovery
Holkovič Martin, Ing. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Matoušek Petr, doc. Ing., Ph.D., M.A. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Ryšavý Ondřej, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT)
password recovery, distributed computing, digital forensics, BOINC, cost efficiency
One of the major challenges in digital forensics today is data encryption. Due to the leaked information about unlawful sniffing, many users decided to protect their data by encryption. In case of criminal activities, forensic experts are challenged how to decipher suspects’ data that are subject to investigation. A common method how to overcome password-based pro- tection is a brute force password recovery using GPU-accelerated hardware. This approach seems to be expensive. This paper presents an alternative approach using task distribution based on BOINC platform. The cost, time, and energy efficiency of this approach is discussed and compared to the GPU-based solution.
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author = "Radek Hranick\'{y} and Martin Holkovi\v{c} and Petr Matou\v{s}ek and Ond\v{r}ej Ry\v{s}av\'{y}",
title = "On Efficiency of Distributed Password Recovery",
pages = "79--95",
journal = "The Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law",
volume = 11,
number = 2,
year = 2016,
ISSN = "1558-7215",
doi = "10.15394/jdfsl.2016.1380",
language = "english",
url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11276"
}