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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 20:37:10 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: PHC: Lyra2 on GPU

On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 07:26:01PM +0200, Agnieszka Bielec wrote:
> 2015-07-04 19:19 GMT+02:00 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:
> > Maybe the auto-tuning could be done only once, only in reset()?
> 
> it's only in reset but first reset is called for correctness tests and
> after that is called before real password cracking

Oh.  This is wasteful, but it makes sense.

Ideally, we'd auto-tune for the actual loaded hashes, yet also run
self-test with those settings (even if suboptimal for the self-test).
But I think there's no easy way to do that currently.

Alexander

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