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Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:06:37 +0800
From: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] JtR SIMD support enhancements

Thanks!  I'll get my hands on them now.


Lei

> On Mar 28, 2015, at 8:22 PM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-03-28 03:13, magnum wrote:
>> On 2015-03-28 02:36, Lei Zhang wrote:
>>> As there're a couple of subtasks in this project I apply for, I'd
>>> like to know if you have any suggestions on what to do next.
>> 
>> While I'm not sure of the full answer to that, I suspect you will
>> benefit from familiarizing yourself with sse-intrinsics.c (currently
>> handling anything from SSE2 up to and including XOP/AVX) and macros like
>> SIMD_COEF_32 and SIMD_COEF_64, and for some formats the GETPOS macro.
> 
> BTW an easier start, if you like, is to modify rawSHA256_ng_fmt_plug.c
> and/or rawSHA512_ng_fmt_plug.c (possibly even rawSHA1_ng_fmt_plug.c) so
> they take advantage of AVX2 and/or AVX-512 when available. These are (I
> think) the only Jumbo formats that doesn't use the shared code - they
> are more or less self-contained.
> 
> The work you'd invest in these formats can be re-used in
> sse-intrinsics.c later on.
> 
> On a side note the main reasons these formats are kept at all (they are
> currently slower than their non-ng alternatives) is they can potentially
> be optimized easier, eg. reversing steps and such things.
> 
> magnum
> 

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