john-users - Re: UTF-8 patch

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:54:53 +0100
From: magnum <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: UTF-8 patch

On 2011-03-14 21:11, I wrote:
> Version 4 of the patch is now uploaded, it should now hopefully build on
> systems other than x86-64. Make generic works for me, I can't test
> anything else right now.

Make it version 5, now (fixed and) tested on mmx and sse2. Please report 
any problems.

> I have also confirmed that the NT_fmt problem is really a bug in
> nt_crypt_all_x86_64(). Once that is fixed (or if you build on something
> that is not x86-64), the 8-bit self tests in lines 54 and 242-245 in
> NT_fmt.c should be un-commented.

This is actually due to an optimisation, not a bug, in the assembler 
versions. Hopefully Alain will change that soon.

magnum