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Message-ID: <20130725010217.GB10793@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:02:17 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: cryptocurrency mining fallback in JtR

Rafael, Lukas -

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 01:35:29AM +0200, Lukas Odzioba wrote:
> 2013/7/18 Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas <lord.rafa@...il.com>:
> > Hello, this is the link to my JtR fork,
> >
> > https://github.com/LordRafa/JohnTheRipper
> >
> > The reason to use 2.10 is there no CPU mining in 2.11.
> 
> But wait, I think we have to distinguish the following things:
> 1) launching mining after jtr end/pause
> 1a) cpu mining
> 1b) gpu mining
> 2) mining on parallella
> 
> If I get it right:
> 1a - can be made without any changes in CGMiner, but we must use cgminer <=2.10

Yes, but at this time I think we should give just up on this, and use
latest cgminer.  Also, only have it built in GPU-enabled builds of JtR.

This mining stuff is fast-paced - things quickly become outdated.
If the cgminer maintainers chose to let CPU-mining go, so be it.
We're being late.

> 1b - currently require changes to get cl gpu/platform id's - those
> changes should go to the main

Right.  Lukas - please help Rafael discuss this with cgminer upstream.

> 2 - since this adds new functionality I think it should go to main, or
> "parallella" branch.

Right.  I think it should be "parallella" branch, and we should ask
upstream's opinion on whether they'd be interested in merging it in.

Thanks,

Alexander

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