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Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 01:59:46 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: bitslice SHA-256

On 2015-05-29 20:13, Alain Espinosa wrote:
> Hand-crafted AVX2 assembly code done for "normal" SHA256. Performance
> in a core i5-4670 3.4GHz, single thread:
>
> - 23.7 millions keys per second. 87% faster than the bitslice one
> with AVX2 intrinsics.

Alain, Solar,

The bitslice track is very interesting, but on a side note: What's the 
main cause for this huge difference between normal SHA256 implemented in 
assembly versus intrinsics? Perhaps the optimizer make some poor 
choices? Could we learn something from analyzing compiled intrinsics and 
tweak the source a little?

OTOH I think the JtR implementation of SHA256 is a lot faster than 12.5M 
keys/s - benchmarking on well (i7-4770K 3.5GHz) shows over 19M. but we 
might not compare apples to apples.

magnum

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