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delaporter

This is a rudimentary SSH private key password recovery tool. It does not claim to be production quality, as the initial coding was done in a few hours. However, PRs/issues are more than welcome.

This version introduces factor an integer variable (default value is 1). This directly influences the number of consumers (erroneously set initially to the number of cores per machine) using the formula factor * number of cores. In my 8-core machine, using a factor value of 512, saw 7 out of 8 cores being utilized. Feel free to experiment with this variable, as I do not have access to a lot of machines. Feedback welcome at lixtetrax@grhack.net, once I get access to more machines or get some feedback, I will try to deduct optimal values ...

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delaporter - a simple ssh private key password recovery tool Copyright (C) 2015 Athanasios Kostopoulos