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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:29:51 +0200
From: Balázs Bucsay <earthquake@...on.hu>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
CC: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GI John

On 26/06/12 01:54, Solar Designer wrote:
> It is listed at
> http://openwall.info/wiki/john/parallelization#Table-of-existing-works
> but I see little reason to integrate it.  
Okay
> Doesn't it depend on your
> unreleased web frontend software?  
Yes, it does.
> Then, even if you release that, we
> can't reasonably have all sorts of distributed processing hacks
> integrated into the same tree at once, and I don't see GI John as being
> superior to the many other hacks.  I think it's limited to doing dumb
> exhaustive searches, right? 
true :)
>  That said, please feel free to contribute
> it as a patch against magnum-jumbo and _maybe_ it'll get in, although I
> won't work on that personally (it'll be up to magnum to decide).
> There's already lots of stuff in the tree that I find questionable. ;-)
Okay, thanks for the quick answer. We will see, what can/want I do :)

Balázs

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