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Message-ID: <20161104145625.GA31667@openwall.com> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:56:25 +0100 From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: John does not fork as many times as I want On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:48:42PM +0100, matlink wrote: > Le 04/11/2016 ? 15:40, Solar Designer a ?crit : > > It's just a matter of > > getting the weakest passwords out first, at which point you restart and > > can run more processes due to them staying more similar to each other > > for longer. If at some point they become dissimilar enough to run out > > of memory again, you can interrupt and restore that session (without > > losing any work already done). > > Understood. I suppose that using "john --restore=mysession" is faster > than running again the above command having "--session=mysession", even > if that command specifies a potfile ? Sure, "--restore" continues from where the session was interrupted, not re-testing the previously tested candidate passwords. Without that option, you have JtR re-test the same candidate passwords. The pot file eliminates previously cracked hashes in either case. (Strictly speaking, even with "--restore" some candidate passwords may be re-tested, because of buffering and such, so my "without losing any work" is technically incorrect. However, in practice when cracking raw-SHA1 hashes you won't notice this, except in "single crack" mode, because it'd be a fraction of a second.) Alexander
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