RACF-KDFAES tunable costs
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Description
Apparently, RACF-KDFES has at least 2 tunable costs, mfact and rfact, which are currently not reported.
And, apparently, for benchmarking we should ideally have test vectors with lower cost values.
$ date; time ./john --test=0 --format=RACF-KDFAES; date; time ./john --test --format=RACF-KDFAES; date; time ./john --test=-1 --format=RACF-KDFAES; date
Mo 14. Jun 01:20:50 CEST 2021
Will run 8 OpenMP threads
Testing: RACF-KDFAES [KDFAES (DES + HMAC-SHA256/64 + AES-256)]... (8xOMP) PASS
real 0m32.974s
user 1m40.352s
sys 0m0.048s
Mo 14. Jun 01:21:23 CEST 2021
Will run 8 OpenMP threads
Benchmarking: RACF-KDFAES [KDFAES (DES + HMAC-SHA256/64 + AES-256)]... (8xOMP) DONE
Warning: "Many salts" test limited: 2/256
Many salts: 0.6 c/s real, 0.0 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 0.3 c/s real, 0.0 c/s virtual
real 1m23.371s
user 8m11.868s
sys 0m0.059s
Mo 14. Jun 01:22:47 CEST 2021
Will run 8 OpenMP threads
Benchmarking: RACF-KDFAES [KDFAES (DES + HMAC-SHA256/64 + AES-256)]... (8xOMP) DONE
Many salts: 0.6 c/s real, 0.0 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 0.3 c/s real, 0.0 c/s virtual
real 51m55.669s
user 410m38.680s
sys 0m0.283s
Mo 14. Jun 02:14:42 CEST 2021
This is just crazy.
I knew --test=-1 would be pointless, given that at this speed (and john reporting just on decimal place for c/s), I would hardly see any difference.
But I wanted to see just how long it would take.
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Research direction
Start from the --format=RACF-KDFAES entry point and inspect how its tunable costs and benchmark test vectors are represented. Done means the mfact and rfact costs are reported and lower-cost vectors make benchmarking practical without changing the format's behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- cryptography, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100