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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:16:00 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: New John 1.7.6 OpenMP Binaries for MacOSX and Windows

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:39:24AM -0400, Erik Winkler wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2011, at 8:38 PM, definitely crashing wrote:
> 
> > So does the OpenMP windows build support multiple cores, now?
> 
> Yes it does.

An important addition: only for hash types that have been parallelized
with OpenMP in the source code.  For the version and patches that Erik
used, this should be: DES-based crypt(3), the BSDI flavor of it,
Blowfish-based crypt(3), LM hashes, MSCash, and MSCash2.

> The default is to use the total number of cores available.  You can set the number of cores that john uses by running the following in the Windows command window:  set OMP_NUM_THREADS=N, where N is the number of cores in your CPU.  You need to run this command BEFORE running john.

Erik - thank you!

Alexander

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