john-users - Re: Contribute with GRID Computing

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:29:49 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Contribute with GRID Computing

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:08:08AM +0100, Pablo Fernandez wrote:
> I want to dive myself in the clustering programming world. I have always 
> thought John the Ripper would be a perfect application for clustering, and I 
> was wondering how to contribute this way. So,
> 
> Is there any grid project open in John? Do I just take the source code myself 
> and work on it, or the development is centralized somehow?

There's no "official" project like that.  People try this stuff out,
sometimes develop a working patch, then abandon it (usually within a
month).  To be honest, I expect that your effort will be similar in
that respect. ;-)

I agree with Nick's advice - you should search the archives of this
mailing list.  Here are a couple of good search queries:

	http://search.gmane.org/?query=mpi&group=gmane.comp.security.openwall.john.user
	http://search.gmane.org/?query=parallel&group=gmane.comp.security.openwall.john.user

Also, there are 5 different JtR/MPI hacks in this FTP directory:

	ftp://ftp.openwall.com/pub/projects/john/contrib/mpi/

I suggest that you start with the README.

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