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BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs

Elena Agostini, Massimo Bernaschi
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Rome (ITALY)
arXiv:1901.01337 [cs.CR], (4 Jan 2019)

@article{agostini2019bitcracker,

   title={BitCracker: BitLocker meets GPUs},

   author={Agostini, Elena and Bernaschi, Massimo},

   year={2019},

   month={jan},

   archivePrefix={"arXiv"},

   primaryClass={cs.CR}

}

BitLocker is a full-disk encryption feature available in recent Windows versions. It is designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes and it makes use of a number of different authentication methods. In this paper we present a solution, named BitCracker, to attempt the decryption, by means of a dictionary attack, of memory units encrypted by BitLocker with a user supplied password or the recovery password. To that purpose, we resort to GPU (Graphics Processing Units) that are, by now, widely used as general-purpose coprocessors in high performance computing applications. BitLocker decryption process requires the computation of a very large number of SHA- 256 hashes and also AES, so we propose a very fast solution, highly tuned for Nvidia GPU, for both of them. We analyze the performance of our CUDA implementation on several Nvidia GPUs and we carry out a comparison of our SHA-256 hash with the Hashcat password cracker tool. Finally, we present our OpenCL version, recently released as a plugin of the John The Ripper tool.
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