phc-discussions - Re: [PHC] Argon2 CPU/GPU benchmarks

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:04:38 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: Re: [PHC] Argon2 CPU/GPU benchmarks

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:06:44PM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:13:06PM +0200, Dmitry Khovratovich wrote:
> > 1) Would you attribute these results to the existing Argon2 parallelism in
> > the compression function (8 x parallel Blake2)? Do you already exploit this
> > feature? If yes, then we already have a more sequential pattern in mind,
> > that would be great to test with or without Maxform.
> 
> We don't yet exploit this (except possibly to a very limited extent that
> an OpenCL compiler and the hardware might), so I wouldn't attribute the
> current results to it.  I've been thinking of communicating suggestions
> on how to try exploiting this to Agnieszka today.  So we'll likely try.

Here are my suggestions on trying to exploit this parallelism in OpenCL:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-dev/2015/08/19/20

We're also considering prefetching:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-dev/2015/08/19/22

and optimizing the modulo operation:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-dev/2015/08/19/10

We'd appreciate other suggestions on these and other potential
optimizations.  e.g. I guess Samuel or Thomas might have more
suggestions on specific ways to optimize the modulo operation.

Alexander