Simple example how to use libcryptsetup for password search. Run: luks_dict [cpus] is LUKS device or image is list of passphrases to try (note trailing EOL is stripped) cpus - number of processes to start in parallel Format of dictionary file is simple one password per line, if first char on line s # it is skiped as comment. You have it run as root (device-mapper cannot create dmcrypt devices as nrmal user. Code need to map keyslots as temporary dmcrypt device.)