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Message-ID: <819a61b10606021006i114e021fs110dd3259a4d7c47@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:06:22 +0200
From: "Otheus (aka Timothy J. Shelling)" <otheus@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: beta MPI john patch against 1.7.2.
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>
> OK, but that code is wrong. You should at the very least consider using
> dup2() instead of dup().
Perhaps you can educate me here, if you have time. Why is it a bad idea to
do:
save = dup(2); close(2); open("/dev/null"); \
/// stuff
close(2); dup(save); close(save);
?
> >You can't reasonably speak of speedups/slowdowns by a certain percentage
> > >unless you mention the hash type and the number of different salts for
> > >which you did your benchmarks.
Ok, noted. Then 299 salts and DES-based crypt(3).
> Is there a function which rebuilds the database using the new
> > john.pot file
>
> I don't think you need to "restart word generation", but you need to
> ensure that you do the database rebuild from outside of loops that
> depend on the database to remain constant. Perhaps doing it at the
> beginning of crk_salt_loop() is safe, but I did not verify that.
> Indeed, you need to rate-limit this and also check for the database
> possibly becoming empty.
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Iguess I'll have to play with it and benchmark it a few times to see which
was the right solution.
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Otheus
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