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Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 16:29:18 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: PKZIP and GPU acceleration

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 03:13:14PM +0300, Milen Rangelov wrote:
> > For this format, GPUs don't matter.  (We do have a GPU-enabled format
> > for the newer WinZip/AES archives, but not for the old PKZIP.)
> 
> I do not completely agree, but it depends on the number of files in the zip
> archive.

Thank you for this helpful detail!

The above "GPUs don't matter" quote came from:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2014/08/02/2

In it, I was only referring to JtR's pkzip format, not to pkzip archive
cracking in general.

Alexander

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