Interesting. I assume that to mean that the inner decryption loop can be repeated over and over with just a minimal overhead when the same password is being use

Interesting. I assume that to mean that the inner decryption loop can be repeated over and over with just a minimal overhead when the same password is being used, compared to the whole process of choosing the next password and setting up the decryption process with that. Anyway, the slowdown is noticeable on my devices with these applications (it's about one second on my laptop), but then again these obviously are not custom-built AES decrypters. This will have to do now.