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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:45:02 +0100
From: Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas <lord.rafa@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Parallella: scrypt

Checking the cpuminer sources looks like it has an optimized scrypt and
sha256 version for ARM-NEON. The license is GPLv2. The cgminer had CPU
support but now looks deprecated.


2013/6/26 Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas <lord.rafa@...il.com>

> Hello,
>
> I have done a fork from the magnum repo (
> https://github.com/LordRafa/JohnTheRipper). Also I checked the
> django-scrypt implementation in the host CPU and it gets an score of 1.1
> then 0.7 for the ref implementation looks normal.
>
> Alexander, I have read the log that you send me. I have checked the miner
> that epixoip told you, cgminer, but looks like doesn't have CPU support,
> for CPU support there another one called "cpuminer". Also I saw that there
> a lot of different cryptocurrencys based on scrypt but for now I think that
> it's better focus in one. I still needing a road map to start to work.
>
> Best regards,
> Rafa.
>
>
> 2013/6/26 magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
>
>> On 25 Jun, 2013, at 14:00 , Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas <
>> lord.rafa@...il.com> wrote:
>> > I'm working on my own git repo(https://github.com/LordRafa/jonh1.8.0),
>> should I move to another one?
>>
>> That tree seems to be based on a 1.8.0 core tarball.
>>
>> Working in your own repo is probably the best. However, in my opinion you
>> should do a fork of the "master" branch of
>> https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper (which is a Git copy of
>> Solar's core CVS and currently almost the same as a core 1.8.0 tarball) or
>> even the "bleeding-jumbo" branch - and then do your stuff from that base.
>> This will help a lot if/when merging some or all of your changes to the
>> Jumbo tree. For example, using your current tree "git blame" will claim
>> that 100% of all files are written by you and all history is lost.
>>
>> I am not 100% sure of your plans and goals so you should probably wait
>> for Solar to comment on this before you take any action.
>>
>> magnum
>>
>
>

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