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Message-ID: <20050901132712.GA94651@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:27:13 +0200
From: dvorak <dvorak@...all.nl>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Using john des routines for 3des (or straight des) cracking
Some more questions:
- Is there a reason in the LM cracker for setting the plain text
everytime again? I see that the storage space is re-used to safe
temporary values for the calculations, is this for cache reasons or
merily to prevent having to write rounds(8) number of different s1..s8
blocks ? Or is the resetting an insignificant portion of the time.
- Is it correct that the key setup for the LM hashes is some kind of
efficient implementations that just sets the correct bits in the
DES_bs_all.K array?
It seems to be based on only restting the bits that are changed
between old and new + some quick fixes to make all the passwords
uppercase.
- What is the significance of the DES_BS_VECTOR it seems one round
uses the full mmx register width already, is this a cache optimazation?
If so why is it always 2 for mmx? or is there some other reason
entirely?
thanks,
dvorak
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