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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:05:47 -0500
From: "jfoug" <jfoug@....net>
To: <john-dev@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: get_salt return question
>What happens to the return address from get_salt? Does JtR internally
>copies the data (upto SALT_SIZE) and and later gives it to set_salt?
Yes. I believe JtR allocates a buffer, and copies it (based upon the
format's salt_size, which is usually set by SALT_SIZE being assigned to it).
The nice thing about doing the expensive work in get_salt, is that you do it
one time. So all computation/allocation, etc that 'can' be done upfront,
should be done there.
Within the processing loop, it is sort of like this:
key_index = 0;
while (pw=getword()) {
if (set_key(pw,key_index++) is max keys) {
while (next_salt = walk_salt_list()) {
set_salt(next_salt);
crypt_all();
if (cmp_all()) { /* search for exact match */ }
}
key_index = 0;
}
}
As you can see above, if you put that expensive logic down in the set_salt()
function, then you have to compute that for each salt, for each set of
passwords. So if you work on one PW at a time (I think PDF does this), then
you perform the salt work #salts * #passwords. If done in get_salt then you
only do the salt work #salts times.
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