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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:03:12 +0200 From: "Otheus (aka Timothy J. Shelling)" <otheus@...il.com> To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: to MPI or not MPI john? > Of course, this "word checksumming and skipping" approach is far from > perfect. It won't scale well, except with slow salted hashes (and > multiple salts actually loaded). This I have trouble grasping. Is the problem that with unsalted or fast hashes, the word-checksumming-and-skipping approach spends a disproportionate amount of time generating words that are never hased ? If that's the problem, then I should point out that with unsalted hashes, it's clearly optimal to distribute the target patterns (the hashed passwords) amongst the nodes. Ie, that's not a problem I'm intending to solve, thought I should provide a script to do that. Are there "fast and salted" hashes I should be concerned about? If so, what in your opinion would be the best way to parallelize it? Its only advantages are simplicity, > generality, and preservation of John's near-optimal ordering of > candidate passwords (as long as all nodes remain online and are of the > same performance). Only. ;)
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