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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:31:21 -0400
From: Rich Rumble <richrumble@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: automation equipped working place of hash cracker, proposal

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Aleksey Cherepanov
<aleksey.4erepanov@...il.com> wrote:
> I think the most effective compression for candidates is to make john.ocnf,
> john.rec and some kind of value for amount to stop after. So we run john
> --stdout on the server, write down all information we need to produce
> appropriate .rec files and then distribute files to the nodes. Or even without
> --stdout: we just produce needed .rec files. I do not know what is exactly
> stored in .rec file so I do not know how easy what I say about is. But it
> seems to be real, does not it?
That is "sort of" what the MPI patch does, here is a thread where we
discussed basically what Aleksey suggests:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2011/06/29/3
-rich

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