john-users - hack to use JtR in a distributed fashion (was: dynamic formats tutorial)

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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:16:00 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: hack to use JtR in a distributed fashion (was: dynamic formats tutorial)

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 05:59:48PM -0400, cc wrote:
> I recently put together a hack to use JtR in a distributed fashion -
> pre-dividing the keyspace and using a cgi program to distribute work
> units to the workers.  Each client gets a unit of work and the
> currently uncracked hashes (this means that, for salted hashes, units
> get faster as the salts get reduced).
[...]
> https://github.com/ccdes/brutus

Thank you for sharing.  (This would be better posted to a new thread,
though.)

Can you please add this to:

http://openwall.info/wiki/john/parallelization#Table-of-existing-works

Thanks again,

Alexander