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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:04:43 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: About very high memory usage
On 2012-07-12 16:28, Solar Designer wrote:
> I recalled that single crack shouldn't be allocating more than 64 KB per
> salt, because it uses 16-bit offsets for the buffered keys. So I went
> to check, and indeed we forgot to include this fix into magnum-jumbo:
>
> http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/john/john/src/loader.h.diff?r1=1.9;r2=1.10
> http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/john/john/src/single.c.diff?r1=1.18;r2=1.19
>
> This means that not only single crack currently allocates a lot of RAM
> with GPU formats, but it may also misbehave. We should include this fix
> before -jumbo-7. magnum - please do.
Done
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