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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 22:50:29 +0530
From: Sayantan Datta <std2048@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: limits within mscash2
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 10:40 PM, <jfoug@....net> wrote:
> Changing the opencl_mscash2 format to allow for salts (user names) longer
> than 19 bytes will take more work. Ideally, this would be done 'prior' to
> jumping into GPU code. The salt is ONLY used on iteration #0. This
> iteration really should be pulled back into the crypt_all function, likely
> done right after the DCC function, but before calling the pbkdf2. Then
> instead of providing the salt to the pbkdf2 function, the 'results' of
> iteration 0 would be provided. Thus, in the gpu code, iterations 1 to
> 10240 would be done (but not the first). This will have no impact on
> overall speed, AND will keep the GPU code faster, only doing 1 block
> sha1's, BUT allow multiple block SHA1 code for that very first iteration
> where the salt value is used.
Yes it allows for 22 char salts :). Thank you very much. Probably I can
also make it support 128 byte salts. Mostly some changes need to be made in
pbkdf2_preprocess kernel. The pbkdf2_iter kernel does 1 to 10240
iterations.
Regards,
Sayantan
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