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Message-ID: <20150513210839.GA20956@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 00:08:39 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Dynamic formats and OpenCL

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:52:50PM +0200, Luis Rocha wrote:
> According to the OpenCL readme file on JtR 1.8 I dont think Dynamic formats
> are supported but wanted to check with the list. Is it possible to run
> Dynamic formats with OpenCL support?

No, except that phpass exists as both a dynamic format and phpass-opencl.

Also, most dynamic formats correspond to hashes that are way too fast
for efficient use of GPUs with the current JtR architecture.  In current
JtR, OpenCL and CUDA are for slow hashes only.

Alexander

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