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Message-ID: <20110405001454.GA16187@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 04:14:54 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Using DES_bs
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 06:46:29PM -0500, Daniel Beard wrote:
> I want to clear something up that I realized I had never mentioned. The
> purpose of using DES bitslice is to generate a hash from an algorithm. The
> algorithm generates a salt from a user supplied password, then the password
> and salt are passed to the DES algorithm to generate a DES hash which is the
> current goal of my project.
All I can say is that the above is confusing in multiple ways, up to the
point where I don't dare to start asking clarifying questions.
Alexander
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