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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:30:03 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: wordlist.c artefacts
magnum -
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:35:52AM +0200, magnum wrote:
> This hunk came with 1.7.9.6-c6, made it into bleeding-jumbo's wordlist.c
> when I merged core fork/node and still remain there:
>
> @@ -378,6 +377,9 @@ void do_wordlist_crack(struct db_main *db, char
> *name, int rules)
> trash the buffer. It's also disabled by --save-mem=N */
> ourshare = (file_len / options.node_count) *
> (options.node_max - options.node_min + 1);
> + if (options.node_count >= 1000000000)
> + ourshare = 0;
> + if (options.node_count != 1000000000)
> if (!(options.flags & FLG_EXTERNAL_CHK) &&
> !mem_saving_level)
> if ((options.node_count > 1 &&
> file_len > options.node_count * (length * 100) &&
Yeah, I had noticed this, but did not bother to notify you.
> What are those 1G tests for? Some kind of debugging?
They're a hack I used along with my Perl scripts in CMIYC 2011 and 2012
(if I recall correctly). They were never meant to get into a released
jumbo. They're most likely broken (not usable for their original
purpose, which no one but me was even aware of) when blindly merged into
the released reimplementation of the --node feature.
> I should remove them, right?
Yes.
Alexander
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