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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 21:14:34 +0100
From: Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas <lord.rafa@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: cryptocurrency mining fallback in JtR (was:
Parallella: scrypt)
> I cannot see why run a cracking
> session at the same time of mining, why it's suppose an advantage?
> The very reason to have cryptocurrency mining integrated into JtR is to
> have it invoked after a cracking session. Suppose the person doing
> password cracking wants to make use of would-be-idle resources to mine a
> cryptocurrency. With our integration, they'd achieve that by having JtR
> fallback to mining after it's done cracking. Without such integration,
> they'd have to resort to some external scripting (and having the miner
> use the right GPU(s) could be tricky).
Ok, I was thinking about that, I just curious if there was any other reason.
2013/7/4 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
> Rafael,
>
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 08:05:14PM +0100, Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas
> wrote:
> > Mmm ok for the prototype, I will add a parameter that runs only the
> cgminer
> > code. Some thing like --runminer, it will look in the jonh.cfg for the
> > cgminer parameters and will start to mine.
>
> OK, you may implement a --mine option, which would cause john to start
> mining right away.
>
> > I cannot see why run a cracking
> > session at the same time of mining, why it's suppose an advantage?
>
> The very reason to have cryptocurrency mining integrated into JtR is to
> have it invoked after a cracking session. Suppose the person doing
> password cracking wants to make use of would-be-idle resources to mine a
> cryptocurrency. With our integration, they'd achieve that by having JtR
> fallback to mining after it's done cracking. Without such integration,
> they'd have to resort to some external scripting (and having the miner
> use the right GPU(s) could be tricky).
>
> Alexander
>
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