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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:22:40 +0800
From: Kai Zhao <loverszhao@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: BENCHMARK_LENGTH bugs

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:03:19AM +0800, Kai Zhao wrote:
>> Could we define slow: whose speed is less than e.g. 1000K c/s ?
>
> As per the previous few messages, we shouldn't define slow for the
> purpose of your current work.  Since this was merely correlation and we
> already know counter-examples, we shouldn't focus on this aspect.
> We should instead focus on whether the "Many salts" and "Only one salt"
> benchmarks results are expected to be different or almost the same.

The benchmark_length should be 0 if the speedup from "Only one salt"
to "Many salts" is greater than 1%. Otherwise, it should be -1. Is this right?


Thanks,

Kai

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