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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:29:31 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: key-length for mask mode.
Sayantan,
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:40:41AM +0530, Sayantan Datta wrote:
> 0g 0:00:00:08 0g/s 3762Kp/s 2794Mc/s 36066GC/s aacujquq..aacxvglr
BTW, this reporting indicates a problem: we're probably not updating the
candidate password count to account for increase of *pcount (which
happens due to on-GPU mask mode). With a saltless hash like raw MD5, we
should see the same p/s and c/s rate (but higher C/s rate when there are
multiple loaded hashes). Here we're seeing a p/s rate that is almost
1000 times lower than the c/s rate, presumably because it does not
account for the mask.
This issue is in the core tree, although obviously it is only exposed
when a format actually starts updating *pcount (which is not yet the
case for any format in the core tree itself). We'll need to think of
how/where to fix it best. Perhaps it'd be in one of the functions in
cracker.c. A difficulty: it is not obvious what to do when one of the
crypt_all() calls sets *pcount to a different value than another call
for the same set of original candidate passwords (but for a different
salts). Maybe this should never happen. Maybe when it does happen, we
should use max... or min?
Alexander
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