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Message-ID: <eb394c1526d88cad7a5a611f9d096d77@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:50:33 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Lei's weekly report #15

On 2015-08-12 06:12, Lei Zhang wrote:
>
>> On Aug 12, 2015, at 2:39 AM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-08-10 18:27, Lei Zhang wrote:
>>> I'm still struggling to make episerver work with the SIMD SHA1/2 functions. Magnum, could you take a look at my code?
>>> 	https://github.com/zzlei/JohnTheRipper/blob/sha2/src/episerver_fmt_plug.c <https://github.com/zzlei/JohnTheRipper/blob/sha2/src/episerver_fmt_plug.c>
>>> I've been tweaking this file hard, but there's still something wrong. Maybe you can notice some obvious mistake in it (?)
>>
>> Attached is a diff against your repo that fixes the problems. There were a few minor (but very effective) bugs and I did a few other changes for clarity. Try to understand the bug fixes fully.
>>
>> Also, now you should move the "write salt to SIMD buffer" from crypt_all() to set_salt(). I believe that will boost the "Many salts" benchmark figure a lot.
>
> I just experimented with that, but got no noticeable change in performance.

Maybe it's hidden by OMP. It should still be the way I said unless you 
can explain a sensible reason why not.

BTW after fixing everything else I said need to be done, you need to 
handle encodings. Your current code only handles ISO-8859-1 (so I 
dropped FMT_UTF8 in that patch).

magnum

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