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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:12:44 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: handling of high numbers of single-salt descrypt
hashes
On 2015-08-14 08:59, Royce Williams wrote:
> I am trying to load an unusually large number of descrypt hashes (128
> million), all with the same salt. (Yes, I know that this is bizarre.
> :) If the answer is "don't do that", I will be OK with that -- I can
> use hashcat instead for this analysis, which can handle this job with
> no problem).
Bizarre or not, I think we should be able to do that given sufficient
memory on host as well as GPU.
> Doing a naive binary walk of hash counts, using a single GPU, with 128
> million or a 64 million hashes, I get:
>
> mem_alloc(): Cannot allocate memory trying to allocate -795869184 bytes
First, there was a bug in this print, outputting a size_t as signed.
This is now fixed. But if this was a 64-bit build, I really wonder how
it could end up that big at all? Looks like a bug.
I leave the rest for Solar and Sayantan to ponder upon.
magnum
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