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Message-ID: <20120523164312.GC29708@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 20:43:12 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: what is/was wrong with dnetj?
Aleksey -
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:31:35PM +0400, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> I looked through http://openwall.info/wiki/john/parallelization and
> got a question: what is wrong with dnetj for distribution? Why is not
> it popular?
>
> It seems that dnetj is intended to be what is needed for distributed
> attacks like during the contest, is not it? What makes it far from its
> intentions?
Frankly, I never tried out dnetj. I only looked at the code, found it
reminiscent of my johnet experiment from 1997, but also unfinished and
IIRC using a less optimal way to distribute portions of incremental
mode's keyspace. If I were to work on implementing distributed
processing for JtR now, I'd start from scratch anyway - using only
experience gained from past experiments, but not any code.
So maybe dnetj was/is in fact fine for some use. Its actual code was
just not useful for a potential distributed processing implementation
that I could start the work on.
Maybe you can try it out and report to john-users?
If you want to review the code, I think dnetj was cloned off JtR 1.7.2,
so that would be the version to diff dnetj against. You may download
old versions of JtR from:
http://download.openwall.net/pub/projects/john/
Thanks,
Alexander
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