[plug] john the ripper

[Timothy White]

On 7/7/05, W.Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Obviously -test isnt quite the same as working on a real file.
> Interesting how much more efficient the athlon is on most cyphers -
> keeping in mind that john on the P4 was compiled with gcc 3.3.5, while
> the athlon used the faster (by reputation) gcc-3.4.4.  Yet the P4 wins
> on standard DES.  The P3 667 at the end is included for novelty
> value ...

I think we just found a good benchmarker for CPU's (and cache maybe?)
Gives a nice comparison I think.

Tim