What's the best way to test a long list of passphrases?

[Reid Thompson]

  On 10/7/2010 3:25 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> On 10/7/2010 11:28 AM, Will McDonald wrote:
>> Given that, what's the best way for me to test my 30,000 possible
>> passphrases?
> At one per second, it'll take about nine hours.  Your fastest solution
> involves spend the rest of today polishing the script, and letting it
> run overnight.  Slow and stupid wins.
>
> The smart and fast way involves doing the s2k computations yourself and
> checking prospective keys one after another, but even then this will be
> slow.  The s2k computation involves a lot of iterated hashing in order
> to slow down brute force attempts like this.  You'll waste more time
> writing code than you'll gain by a faster algorithm.
>
> Basically, if you do things the slow and stupid way you'll be done by
> morning.  If you do things the smart and fast way you might be finished
> by the end of the week.  You can view this as an instance of "worse is
> better."
>
> Good luck!
>
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given that -- split the file into 5? chunks and kick off 5? copies of the script