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  • I wonder: Did you read the manual (man cryptsetup)? Your --iter-time 10000 would mean that a successful authentication would need more than three hours to succeed. That will definitely slow down any brute force attack, but maybe your laptop battery will be empty before having even authgenticated (unlocked) your LUKS device once.
    – U. Windl
    Commented Apr 28, 2021 at 8:14
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    @U. Windl - 10000 milliseconds (10 seconds), not 10000 seconds (3 hours). Commented Apr 28, 2021 at 15:42