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LUKS these days supports Argon2, which has configurable time, memory, and parallelism parameters; brute-forcing a single weak password can be as slow as you want it to be. The offline backup of my pass(1) repository on a thumb drive on my keychain takes more than 3 minutes to unlock on an i7-7700K.


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