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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:45:19 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: bitslice MD*/SHA*, AVX2
On 2015-03-11 22:21, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:55:09PM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
>> There's definitely some further room for optimization in md5slice.c -
>> for example, it does not yet take advantage of the common subexpressions
>> in the invocations of HH() (we can save 8*32 XORs).
>
> BTW, it appears that we don't currently use this optimization. Not even
> in the copy of my portable MD5 implementation in JtR, which I've since
> updated to include this optimization here:
>
> http://openwall.info/wiki/people/solar/software/public-domain-source-code/md5
>
> In my testing, this might not be beneficial on 2-operand archs such as
> plain x86, but it should be on 3-operand archs such as AVX. So we
> should update the code in sse-intrinsics.c, and benchmark. And we should
> update the plain C code anyway, such as for non-x86 archs (which are
> mostly 3-operand RISC).
>
> magnum, Jim?
Yeah... unless we have some GSoC candidate wanting to show his/her
teeth? That would be a good start!
magnum
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