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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 09:18:44 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: New self-test for maximum length

On Monday 31 December 2012 02:14 AM, magnum wrote:
> On 30 Dec, 2012, at 18:11 , Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday 30 December 2012 10:26 PM, magnum wrote:
>>> On 30 Dec, 2012, at 3:49 , magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Unfortunately things get worse if you build with OMP. The test is more effective with more than one keys per crypt(). Not that I have seen any more of your formats yet, it segfaults on IPB so the rest are not tested with a --test=0 run.
>>>>
>>>> We may have a lot to do. I'll keep focusing on OpenCL formats for now.
>>> Benchmarking: Clipperz SRP SHA256 [32/64 oSSL-exp]... (8xOMP) FAILED (get_hash[0](6))
>>>
>> I will look into this one tomorrow.
> I had a look at it but saw nothing. It's intermittent, works once out of about four with OMP build, but no problems seen with non-OMP. Very trivial code, I really can't see what could be wrong with it.
> ilf
> Apart from that one, the dynamics are the only ones left that I know of (and I just heard from Jim, he's on it!). We've nailed quite a few bugs the last couple of days 8^)
>

1. Are we using non-thread safe OpenSSL functions in this format? 
OpenSSL could be breaking OMP builds (just guessing).

2. This format is a copy of wow_srp format. There isn't much difference 
between them. So why doesn't wow_srp format exhibit
similar problems?

Dhiru

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