05-16-2012, 07:42 AM
Elcomsoft and Passware does distributed, with a server that can be passive in that it only distributes tasks and collects 'replies', or it can also do cracking itself as an active node.
A 'server' would take as input the command line for -plus (or -lite), and break the total task into sub-tasks (sub-keyspaces) with an estimate of perhaps a couple of (gpu) minutes to finish each sub-task (depending on gpu on 'agent'). Results (hash:plain
alt:hex) is returned to server. For next sub-tasks to be handed out, found hashes will be reported/removed, so that each agent does not try to recover it anymore.
or something like that. Morning, off to work. :-)
A 'server' would take as input the command line for -plus (or -lite), and break the total task into sub-tasks (sub-keyspaces) with an estimate of perhaps a couple of (gpu) minutes to finish each sub-task (depending on gpu on 'agent'). Results (hash:plain
alt:hex) is returned to server. For next sub-tasks to be handed out, found hashes will be reported/removed, so that each agent does not try to recover it anymore.or something like that. Morning, off to work. :-)