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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:29:27 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Drupal 7
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:32:07AM +0100, magnum wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 09:10 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
> > Just why is it slower than SHA-crypt-512, though? (With the
> > current sets of test vectors.) Somehow I thought that the latter with
> > the default of rounds=5000 actually invoked the SHA-512 compression
> > function about 17,000 times. So I expected these two to provide very
> > similar performance.
>
> SHA-crypt calls SHA512_Update() 17766 times for 5000 rounds, but
> sha512_block_dat_order() is only called 5021 times, and that's the slow
> stuff.
Oh, somehow I thought that the compression function was called this many
times, not just the "update" wrapper. OK, I was wrong, then.
> Thanks, and then we can adjust the crypt_key array like this:
Yes.
Thanks,
Alexander
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