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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:41:06 +0100
From: Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas <lord.rafa@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: cryptocurrency mining fallback in JtR (was:
Parallella: scrypt)
Hello,
>From my last mail, I have implemented a prototype version of cgminer
integration with JtR. This prototype gets the user, pass and address from
the JtR config file. I was checking the best way to integrate cgminer with
JtR and I think the best is use the API provided by cgminer, in order to
avoid add a lot of dependencies to JtR. We can add an option to JtR config
file that sets the path that Cgminer is installed and run it if the option
--miner is set. Using the API we can show information and enable/disable
GPUs.
Best regards,
Rafa.
2013/7/4 Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas <lord.rafa@...il.com>
>
> > I cannot see why run a cracking
> > session at the same time of mining, why it's suppose an advantage?
>
> > The very reason to have cryptocurrency mining integrated into JtR is to
> > have it invoked after a cracking session. Suppose the person doing
> > password cracking wants to make use of would-be-idle resources to mine a
> > cryptocurrency. With our integration, they'd achieve that by having JtR
> > fallback to mining after it's done cracking. Without such integration,
> > they'd have to resort to some external scripting (and having the miner
> > use the right GPU(s) could be tricky).
>
> Ok, I was thinking about that, I just curious if there was any other
> reason.
>
>
> 2013/7/4 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
>
>> Rafael,
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 08:05:14PM +0100, Rafael Waldo Delgado Doblas
>> wrote:
>> > Mmm ok for the prototype, I will add a parameter that runs only the
>> cgminer
>> > code. Some thing like --runminer, it will look in the jonh.cfg for the
>> > cgminer parameters and will start to mine.
>>
>> OK, you may implement a --mine option, which would cause john to start
>> mining right away.
>>
>> > I cannot see why run a cracking
>> > session at the same time of mining, why it's suppose an advantage?
>>
>> The very reason to have cryptocurrency mining integrated into JtR is to
>> have it invoked after a cracking session. Suppose the person doing
>> password cracking wants to make use of would-be-idle resources to mine a
>> cryptocurrency. With our integration, they'd achieve that by having JtR
>> fallback to mining after it's done cracking. Without such integration,
>> they'd have to resort to some external scripting (and having the miner
>> use the right GPU(s) could be tricky).
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>
>
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