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Message-ID: <20150814133812.GA26696@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:38:12 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: wpapsk format hash function weirdness

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:59:17PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 2015-08-14 14:53, Solar Designer wrote:
> >Can you explain why we're using seemingly inconsistent sets of hash
> >functions in wpapsk_fmt_plug.c:
> >
> >                     {
> >                                 binary_hash_0,
> >                                 fmt_default_binary_hash_1,
> >                                 fmt_default_binary_hash_2,
> >                                 fmt_default_binary_hash_3,
> >                                 fmt_default_binary_hash_4,
> >                                 fmt_default_binary_hash_5,
> >                                 fmt_default_binary_hash_6
> >                     },
> >
> >along with
> >
> >                     {
> >                                 get_hash_0,
> >                                 get_hash_1,
> >                                 get_hash_2,
> >                                 get_hash_3,
> >                                 get_hash_4,
> >                                 get_hash_5,
> >                                 get_hash_6
> >                     },
> >
> >If this isn't a bug, then I suggest that we add a comment explaining it.
> 
> Please note the difference between fmt_default_binary_hash (a stub) and 
> fmt_default_binary_hash_x (real functions, used in a lot of formats). 

Sure, but why the binary_hash_0 vs. fmt_default_binary_hash_1
discrepancy?  Why handle the smallest hash table size specially?

Alexander

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