[plug] john the ripper

[Cameron Patrick]

Matt Kemner wrote:

> > running without nice gives a solid 2916 c/s each time
> 
> Interesting that you only get 50% better speed than this old PIII

This got me curious so I ran john -test on a few machines at home.

                                 MD5 c/s     DES c/s
 Wizard (233MHz Geode)               246        8737
 Pentium M 1500MHz                  3645      169062
 Athlon XP 2600 (Barton, 1900MHz)   5427      146969
 Athlon XP 2600 (T'bred, 2100MHz)   5966      160998
 Athlon 64 3500 (Venice, 2200MHz)   4374      477703
 Athlon 64 3500, 32-bit john        6478      171289

And for giggles, the PLUG servers:
 Spark (Sparcstation 20 clone)       110        8312
 Shameless (1GHz Via C3 Nehemiah)   1402       42956

(The 32-bit john contains MMX assembler optimisations whereas the
64-bit one is straight C code generated by gcc.  Interesting that DES
really loves the 64-bit code, though.  I thought it might be some
screwed up outlier so ran it again and got an even higher value.
Odd.)

Those of you with variable-width fonts will find this table more
entertaining to interpret :-)

Cameron.