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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:54:42 +0100
From: Michael Behrisch <behrisch@...ormatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Speed up John
Am Dienstag, 15. November 2005 21:49 schrieb Solar Designer:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:48:33PM +0100, kraeh! wrote:
> > If you really want to speed up john, you should use more than just one
> > computer for it.
> > JohnNet is a quite nice tool for this. and i don??t say things like this
> > because i made it 8-)
>
> I had a look at this:
>
> http://www.kraeh.info/html/manual.html
>
> Basically, this suffers from the same problem that dJohn and most other
> similar hacks do. Unlike John the Ripper itself, these programs or John
> patches would not try candidate passwords in an optimal order. As a
> result, John running on a single CPU for one day might crack more
> real-world password hashes than dJohn or JohnNet running on 10 CPUs
> would.
I don't know anything about the way those tools generate their
(packages of) candidate passwords,
but if they use john --stdout to generate them, your objections
would not apply, would they?
Yours,
Michael
--
Michael Behrisch (Tel. +49 30 2093-3123)
HU Berlin, Institut fuer Informatik, Arbeitsgruppe Algorithmen
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~behrisch/
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