Hashcat Brain bottleneck bypass
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(10-08-2020, 08:54 PM)philsmd Wrote: maybe explain what type of hash you are trying to crack and why the (ethernet) speed in your opinion is really that important ?

brain was never meant to be used with that much of data anyways, it was developed for very slow salted hashes like bcrypt and scrypt

I`ve tried many algos, but even mentioned slow hashes bcrypt and scrypt are rapidly slowing down via brain session with 5+ clients, in contrast with a single brain client, which is  always perfect on slow hashes.   I see it on client`s performance monitor. In offline mode without brain  there is 10-20% better utilisation of the client`s hardware and hashing speed on slow hashes ( measured -D1 and -D2 extra each ) measured  from 5+ clients. A brain hardware probably is not a bottleneck, as I saw , except NIC of c. ( Never run brain on W2012 with multiple faces, it is a performance tragedy, 40% hashing speed lost even on slow algos with 5+ clients, only linux version is usable with 10+ clients  ) I also noticed, it is a bad idea to connect clients with poor performance to a brain together with powerful clients , it somehow slows down the powerful ones. I tried a lot of HW combinations. The last thing which gave me a slightly  better result in clients utilisation decrease  was 10Gbit ethetnet. Not because of the speed, but probably because of the latency.  But fiber channel has much more power to be unleashed.
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Hashcat Brain bottleneck bypass - by Katarnkyle - 10-08-2020, 08:16 PM
RE: Hashcat Brain bottleneck bypass - by philsmd - 10-08-2020, 08:54 PM
RE: Hashcat Brain bottleneck bypass - by Katarnkyle - 10-08-2020, 09:36 PM