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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 20:57:21 +0200
From: Lukas Odzioba <lukas.odzioba@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: sha3-opencl

2013/6/8 Dániel Bali <balijanosdaniel@...il.com>:
> My guess is that x/4*4 makes sure the value is divisible by 4, which might be
> because of the 4 byte integers. I'm not sure.
You're right, this is used to align data in gpu memory.

> Claudio André pointed out the error that caused the segfaults/double free
> errors. It was this line:
>
> res_hashes = malloc(sizeof(cl_uint) * 3 * kpc);
>
> I changed the 3 to 7 and now the kernel runs on both devices with any
> MAX_KEYS_PER_CRYPT value, so I guess it works now.
> I'm not sure how could I miss this line because I was looking for constants
> like this that needed to be changed because of the hash size difference
> between keccak256 and md5. Maybe because I was focused on the value 4 much
> more.

That is a good reason to change magic values like 3 or 7 to
macros/constants. This way it would be hard to miss that.

Lukas

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