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Message-ID: <20110920160219.GA1432@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:02:19 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: FMT_BS in NETLM (was: Patch for dynamically loaded formats)

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:42:49PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 2011-09-19 17:58, Solar Designer wrote:
> >Also, I think you shouldn't be setting FMT_BS - you don't have a
> >bitslice implementation there.
> 
> This reminded me that I stumbled over the exact same thing in NETLM_fmt 
> recently. I know little about bitslicing, but I believe there is none in 
> that format. One could of course say that the M$ LM hash is bitsliced 
> per se... but that's not the general meaning of bitsliced DES, right? :-)
> 
> I suppose it should be removed in J6.

You're right, I'll take care of that.  I am preparing -jumbo-6-RC3 now.

Alexander

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