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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:35:44 +0200
From: magnum <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: 45% wordlist boost just waiting to happen
These lines in wordlist.c always nagged me:
#if 0 && ARCH_ALLOWS_UNALIGNED
/* XXX: somehow this breaks things - why? */
line = words[nCurLine++];
#else
strcpy(line, words[nCurLine++]);
#endif
Today I finally tried removing that "0 && " road block and this made for
a stunning 45% boost running a wordlist + rules against LM. I see no
problems.
So... who did that? Just what "things" did it break? Could we perhaps
use some clever macro instead, enabling this for systems that doesn't
have problems?
magnum
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