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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 08:53:05 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: PHC: Argon2 on GPU
Agnieszka,
There might also be room for improvement of Argon2 performance on GPUs
through special handling of BLAKE2b's 64-bit operations. See:
http://hashcat.net/forum/archive/index.php?thread-3422.html
"All the 64-bit based algorithms like SHA512, Keccak etc dropped in
performance with each new driver a little bit. So it was hard to notice.
GPUs instructions operate still on 32-bit only, so the 64-bit mode is
emulated. But the way how it is emulated was somehow broken. I was
able to pinpoint the problem where the biggest drop came from and I
managed to workaround it. For NVidia it took me a little PTX hack, for
AMD luckily there was no binary hack required."
Unfortunately, atom doesn't go into further detail there (but we could
try asking him). I guess the approach amounts to explicitly building
64-bit addition out of 32-bit additions. Maybe having it split like
that right away (rather than only in the PTX or IL to ISA translation)
is somehow friendlier to current compilers.
I guess this is part of why oclHashcat is faster than JtR at SHA-512
based hashes (per further announcements, oclHashcat's performance at
those has been improved way further since that old forum posting above).
In a vectorized kernel, we'd switch from ulong2 to uint4.
Alexander
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