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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:26:52 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Formats ssh and ssh-ng
On Jan 24, 2013 10:03 PM, "Frank Dittrich" <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 01/24/2013 05:08 PM, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Frank Dittrich
> >> This would allow to pick the fastest of several benchmarks for
> >> performance comparison in relbench.
> >> (Of course, the format name should only be changed if both formats
> >> understand the same canonical hash representation and if ssh-ng doesn't
> >> produce false positives.)
> >
> > ssh-ng *might* produce false positives (but it hasn't so far!) and
> > making ssh-ng understand old-style hashes requires more work (i.e.
> > patches welcome).
> >
> > Hence, for now, it is better to treat them as separate formats.
>
> But once ssh-ng makes sure it doesn't produce false positives anymore,
> it will still be much faster (except when the ratio of password
> candidates to correct passwords is close to 1), right?
>
> If so, at some point in the future, the old ssh format can be dropped
> (or moved to unused), and ssh-ng will become the new ssh, right?
>
Yes, that's right.
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