Yuri's Status Report

Solar Designer

2011-07-05 00:45:25 UTC

Hi Yuri,

Thank you for the status report, as usual. It helps.

Post by Yuri Gonzaga
- Eksblowfish's inner loop interface
- Communication to host PC successfully done.
- Code and hardware result uploaded to wiki page (
http://openwall.info/wiki/crypt-dev/files)
- Based on version called "eksblowfish-loop-2"
- The same test case was employed to compare results in host
software side

Sounds good.

Post by Yuri Gonzaga
- This was executed 10 times sequentially and waste 234.938 seconds
of execution time
- The hardware worked properly

Any info on the performance? This is one Eksblowfish core running in
the FPGA right? If so, it got to be several times slower than native
(compiled) code on the CPU, right?

Post by Yuri Gonzaga
- Integrate eksblowfish-loop to crypt_blowfish package

No, integrate into JtR. Initially integrate interface to one core, then
expand to multiple cores.

crypt_blowfish has interfaces limited to computing one hash at a time,
so you wouldn't be able to expand to more than one core. On the other
hand, JtR readily supports multiple hash computations per crypt_all().

One of your/our objectives here is to learn to synthesize and interface
to multiple crypto cores in an FPGA. Of course, this is nothing new,
but we lack experience with it. So we need to gain such experience.
On our tiny team, David has such experience, though. Please ask him
specific questions on this when you have any.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Thanks,

Alexander