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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:31:37 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: TrueCrypt format

Alain -

Thank you for your contribution!

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 03:18:28PM -0700, Alain Espinosa wrote:
> I do not think TrueCrypt can be implemented in GPU any time soon, it's to
> complex.

The PBKDF2 step can be implemented on GPU fairly easily.  There are some
implementations already.  See:

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/u116n/truecrack_a_bruteforce_password_cracker_for/c4rieal
https://code.google.com/p/truecrack/

Apparently, faster GPU-enabled implementations exist, but they're
proprietary.

Alexander

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