Crypto Miner Conversion

[logistix111]

Does it come down to something as simple as hash type?

exactly.

And since I plan to do distributed, do you know if hashtopus does the wordlist manipulation

wordlist manipulation is done by yourself manually.

Any idea where I could get a list/comparison of hashing algos on CPU v GPU? As for the wordlist manipulation, that makes sense. I thought he was referring to the actual generation of each guess via masks, dic combinator, etc.

Here is the CPU benchmark for hashcat v0.49: http://hashcat.net/forum/thread-3952-pag...=benchmark

Here is a general GPU benchmark for oclHashcat v1.33: http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/

You can run in benchmark mode ahead of time to get some calculations on what different CPUs/GPUs will do. You will notice that a very large wordlist, like 2 gigabytes in size for example, will have a higher hashrate than brute force mode or a very small wordlist like a few hundred megs.