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Message-ID: <20110911095617.GD32017@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:56:17 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: benchmark vs. actual speed (was: New pkzip format)

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:00:41PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 2011-09-09 01:33, JimF wrote:
> > I bet the 'real' performance is much closer to 18M than it is to 27M :)
[...]
> And running plain -inc it's soon near 24M:
> 
> guesses: 0  time: 0:00:03:37 0.00%  c/s: 23659K  trying: 23apjoee - 23apjomu
> guesses: 0  time: 0:00:04:17 0.00%  c/s: 23837K  trying: rhtsduli - rhtsdut1
> guesses: 0  time: 0:00:04:34 0.00%  c/s: 23904K  trying: dipbaye - dipbifl
> guesses: 0  time: 0:00:06:11 0.00%  c/s: 23919K  trying: s7mabE - s7max@
> guesses: 0  time: 0:00:07:51 0.00%  c/s: 23998K  trying: bweghy16 - bweghy22

You may also try setting MinLen and MaxLen to the same value, preferably
large (meaning 8 in the default build).  Then you'll reach the max speed
almost instantly.

Alexander

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