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I've got an old datacenter KVM with a root password I've been unable to crack, even though it's an ancient DES one.

Does anyone have a good cloud-hosted password cracker? I can't seem to brute force it, no matter how long I let John the ripper run.

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An EC2 instance with lots of cores like a c6i.32xlarge should do the trick, no? You could even pay for spot instances and just checkpoint frequently and copy the progress file to S3 when you get the interruption warning.

Rent a gpu from vast.ai or similar an let hashcat have fun

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