crypt-dev - interfacing to multiple crypto cores from JtR (was: Yuri's Status Report

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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:16:25 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: crypt-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: interfacing to multiple crypto cores from JtR (was: Yuri's Status Report - #10 of 15)

Yuri -

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:47:16PM -0300, Yuri Gonzaga wrote:
> Alexander, Could you start to guide me in how the JtR works with multiple
> hashes?

I decided to simplify the task for you, so I created a JtR patch that
adds the proper hooks specific to moving the Eksblowfish costly loop to
multiple FPGA cores (while keeping the rest on CPU).  This is
john-1.7.8-fpga-hooks.diff.gz, which I uploaded to:

http://openwall.info/wiki/john/FPGA#VII-JtR-integration

Apply it like this:

http://openwall.info/wiki/john/how-to-extract-tarballs-and-apply-patches

With this patch, BF_N in BF_std.h is the number of cores.  Currently, it
is set to 10, and the code in BF_std.c simply iterates over all would-be
cores.  What you need to do is replace one of three loops in
BF_std_crypt() (with the patch applied) with your own code interfacing
to the FPGA.

For performance measurements (vs. CPU), please note that this
-fpga-hooks patch has a performance impact - it drops certain
CPU-specific optimizations and it makes changes resulting in more
complicated addressing modes being used on the CPU.  These changes were
needed to separate out the loop to be replaced.  Once you do have this
working with an FPGA, you'd need to compare its performance against that
of the original JtR (without the patch).

Also, for simplicity this implements the CPU and FPGA portions of work
sequentially, even though when we have a large number of cores in the
FPGA it could make sense to move to an asynchronous design and also to
run multiple threads on the CPU.  But that's something we might revisit
much later (or not).

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Alexander

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