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Message-ID: <20130107000323.GA19049@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 04:03:23 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: des-opencl
Sayantan -
While posting comments here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/162ufx/research_project_opencl_bitslice_des_bruteforce/
I tested des-opencl currently in unstable-jumbo:
OpenCL platform 1: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing, 2 device(s).
Using device 0: Tahiti
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [OpenCL]... DONE
Many salts: 43805K c/s real, 141669K c/s virtual
Only one salt: 25022K c/s real, 41287K c/s virtual
As we know, this is reasonable speed given no specialization for a salt
value yet and given the formats interface bottleneck. However, when I
went to test it on an actual password file, I found that:
1. Detection of matching salts does not work. This is easily fixed by
changing BINARY_SIZE and SALT_SIZE in opencl_DES_fmt.c to be
sizeof(WORD) (for consistency with your other changes) rather than
ARCH_SIZE (a leftover from the CPU-based format). Please apply this
change. I briefly tested it, and it works for me (fixes the problem,
does not introduce side-effects).
2. The speed seen during actual cracking is a lot lower - about 1M c/s,
not 44M c/s as --test would suggest (this is for many salts). Why is
that? How to avoid this problem?
A guess: you're using global memory somewhere, so caching helps when
there are only a handful of different plaintext passwords/salts being
hashed repeatedly. It could be something entirely different, though.
Maybe you've recently made "optimizations" and did not test their effect
other than on --test speeds, which do not always reflect real-world
speeds. Maybe you need to revert some changes.
When we were at around 20M c/s for --test, this was a speed we could
actually achieve, right? I vaguely recall actually achieving it in a
run on a password file.
Thanks,
Alexander
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