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Message-ID: <4D8BA08B.2000606@bredband.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:50:35 +0100
From: magnum <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: New John 1.7.6 OpenMP Binaries for MacOSX and Windows

On 2011-03-24 03:16, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:39:24AM -0400, Erik Winkler wrote:
>> On Mar 22, 2011, at 8:38 PM, definitely crashing wrote:
>>
>>> So does the OpenMP windows build support multiple cores, now?
>>
>> Yes it does.
>
> An important addition: only for hash types that have been parallelized
> with OpenMP in the source code.  For the version and patches that Erik
> used, this should be: DES-based crypt(3), the BSDI flavor of it,
> Blowfish-based crypt(3), LM hashes, MSCash, and MSCash2.

The Sybase ASE patch has OMP support so I guess that's included too.

Btw, is there no crypt(3) in cygwin or mingw or whatever you use? I 
can't see why that would be left out but I recall Jim said he doesn't 
have it. Or are you using MSVC?

magnum

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