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Modifying jtr-1.6.37 for MPI

To apply the same changes that Lim applied to jtr-1.6.36 to make it perform its brute-force attacks in parallel using the MPI libraries required me to see the differences between the src directories of jtr-1.6.36 and jtr-1.6.36-mpi.

Using WinMerge revealed 16 files which needed to be modified, and 2 files which had to be copied. The files which needed modifications were:

• bench.c
• benc.h
• charset.c
• cracker.c
• external.c
• inc.c
• john.c
• loader.c
• logger.c
• Makefile
• misc.c
• options.c
• params.c
• recovery.c
• signals.c
• status.c

The files which needed copying were:

• ryan.c
• ryan.h

In the copy of the jtr-1.6.37 folder, jtr-1.6.37-mpicmf, the two ryan files were copied, then the other files were modified. To find which lines had to be added/edited WinMerge was used, but this time used to compare the two different source files.

Results from this new version of jtr-1.6.37 will be posted as soon as tests are performed.