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mhogomchungu / zuluCrypt

zuluCrypt is a front end to cryptsetup and tcplay and it allows easy management of encrypted block devices
https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt
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To long timeout when wrong password is entered for Veracrypt partitions #167

Closed HypnoticST8 closed 2 years ago

HypnoticST8 commented 2 years ago

Hello

When wrong password is entered it's usually takes about two minutes to show the massage that partition can't be mounted. That's definitely too long. There is also minor bug with the timer when seconds pass value of 59 (1 min 61 sec instead od 2 min 1 sec). I'm using zuluCrypt 5.7.1 on Debian based system.

mhogomchungu commented 2 years ago

VeraCrypt volumes are designed to be very annoying when a wrong password is entered because it has too many crypto properties and all need to be tried before giving up and the whole things takes too much time.

Recent versions of cryptsetup has ability to specify what crypto options to use to unlock a VeraCrypt volume and this considerably reduces the times it to get a wrong password error because only one option is tried.

HypnoticST8 commented 2 years ago

I haven't changed any options when mounting mentioned volume but upgraded to version 6.0.0 which seems to fix the issue. No i takes about 20 seconds instead of two minutes.

mhogomchungu commented 2 years ago

Older versions of zuluCrypt used tcplay to unlock TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes and recent versions now use cryptsetup and i suspect the switch to cryptsetup is the cause of the improvement you see.

Thanks for the update.