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On Efficiency of Distributed Password Recovery

HRANICKÝ, R.; HOLKOVIČ, M.; MATOUŠEK, P.; RYŠAVÝ, O.

Original Title

On Efficiency of Distributed Password Recovery

English Title

On Efficiency of Distributed Password Recovery

Type

WoS Article

Original Abstract

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.

English abstract

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.

Keywords

password recovery, distributed computing, digital forensics, BOINC, cost efficiency

Key words in English

password recovery, distributed computing, digital forensics, BOINC, cost efficiency

Authors

HRANICKÝ, R.; HOLKOVIČ, M.; MATOUŠEK, P.; RYŠAVÝ, O.

RIV year

2017

Released

28.09.2016

ISBN

1558-7215

Periodical

Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law

Volume

11

Number

2

State

United States of America

Pages from

79

Pages to

95

Pages count

16

URL

https://commons.erau.edu/jdfsl/vol11/iss2/5/

BibTex

@article{BUT131021,
  author="Radek {Hranický} and Martin {Holkovič} and Petr {Matoušek} and Ondřej {Ryšavý}",
  title="On Efficiency of Distributed Password Recovery",
  journal="Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law",
  year="2016",
  volume="11",
  number="2",
  pages="79--95",
  doi="10.15394/jdfsl.2016.1380",
  issn="1558-7215",
  url="https://commons.erau.edu/jdfsl/vol11/iss2/5/"
}

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