Re: Aleksey's status report #11

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:30:25AM +0400, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 10:10:30PM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> > On 07/04/2012 05:26 PM, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> > > That is my primary priority. Though it will be a bare bone thing.
> > > 
> > > - Try to fix request tracker to get reasonable speed
> > > 
> > >> - Look into other possible collaboration server side tool
> > >> - Compare them by speed
> > > 
> > > - Apply Frank's suggestions from status report #10
> > > 
> > >> - Fix markup on the wiki page
> > > 
> > >> - Research possible statistics and their importance
> > 
> > Can you elaborate a little more what statistics you have in mind?
> > (If it had already been discussed, just a pointer to a previous thread
> > would be nice.)
> 
> One thing is efficiency: ratio of cracked passwords to count of
> candidates. This could be real: by fact .pot length divided to john
> --stdout ... | wc -l (currently I use new pot for each attack and
> (plan to) filter cracked hashes out from file to crack). But this has
> problems: if attacks overlap efficiency is low while attack could be
> good in general, it could affect our decisions to proceed attack or
> not badly.

Hmm, we already talked about efficiency. The link
http://openwall.com/lists/john-users/2012/05/27/2

And I wanted to answer it and sibling message too... But not today. I
hope I will not forget again.

Regards,
Aleksey Cherepanov