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Add multithreading support in attack functions

Open unicornsasfuel opened this issue 9 years ago • 1 comments

Certain attack functions such as Vaudenay's padding oracle attack or the multi-byte XOR solver would benefit from some parallelization, but currently this isn't done.

unicornsasfuel avatar May 13 '16 20:05 unicornsasfuel

So discussions with people more intimately familiar with Python than I suggest that multi-threading in Python is effectively useless except if you're trying to overcome limitations based on network latency or some such.

Considering that, multi-threading in any active attacks based on oracles would be useful, but local attacks like the multi-byte XOR attack would not benefit from multi-threading.

unicornsasfuel avatar Dec 05 '16 21:12 unicornsasfuel