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Message-ID: <d92a73307045de94027a491ae286be46@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:36:19 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Can keepass get a second test case prior to jumbo-6?

On 2012-06-28 00:08, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> Looks like keepass is a salted hash format.
> We should try to have at least 2 different salts in the format test,
> otherwise it might be difficult to compare benchmarks in future releases
> when we make sure that least two different salts are included for the
> test of salted formats.
> 
> Benchmark length -1 is probably wrong as well (assuming the format can
> be faster for multiple salts).

Good thoughts, although I believe it's not really salted. I call these
formats "salt-only" because they don't have a binary(). Most or all
non-hash formats are made that way.

magnum

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