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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:45:44 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re:  Development status

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:42:02PM +0000, -. -PhanTom-. - wrote:
> How is the development of JTR going?

Very slowly, as expected.

> What are you working on and what plans do you have for your wonder tool 
> in the near future...?

I'm afraid that there's nothing exciting to expect in the _near_ future.

I do have an experimental tree, though, where stuff has been moved under
ciphers/ (a better name for "formats"), arch/ and os/ subdirectories.
Further changes in that tree should make it more extensible.

> With quadcore cpus coming out soon, have you given "native" support for 
> multiple cores/cpus any further thought?

This does not need any further thought.  I simply need to find/allocate
the time to implement parallel processing support in JtR - and do it.

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