Yes, I'd like to see what you guys have been up to. I don't know how much help I will be, as playing hacker isn't on my resume, but I've been fascinated by what has already been accomplished. It never hurts to have a few extra tools on the toolbelt.
As for my family member, we're making progress, but it's been a long haul. It was one thing after another. I'm not 100% out of the woods with this yet, but we're getting there.
I assume you're using the brute-force method to try to crack the passwords. Have you considered dividing the problem into pieces and having multiple people run the same image through at the same time, but only on a subset of all the possibilities? You could speed up the process tremendously this way.
As a very gross analogy: Person 1 does A-G, Person 2 does H-N, Person 3 does O-V, etc.
Yes, I'd like to see what you guys have been up to. I don't know how much help I will be, as playing hacker isn't on my resume, but I've been fascinated by what has already been accomplished. It never hurts to have a few extra tools on the toolbelt.
As for my family member, we're making progress, but it's been a long haul. It was one thing after another. I'm not 100% out of the woods with this yet, but we're getting there.
Yeah, where is it?
BTW, I was just thinking...
I assume you're using the brute-force method to try to crack the passwords. Have you considered dividing the problem into pieces and having multiple people run the same image through at the same time, but only on a subset of all the possibilities? You could speed up the process tremendously this way.
As a very gross analogy: Person 1 does A-G, Person 2 does H-N, Person 3 does O-V, etc.
What time zone are you in?