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@ifdefelse Would you like me to send you a PR implementing this? Perhaps as version 0.9.4? Should we get the parameters changes for 0.9.3 in first, with a separate commit?...

Higher hashrate from a specific design and code change, with everything else staying the same, isn't a meaningless metric because it implies a higher rate of computation of everything else,...

I've just tested these changes on top of current pristine ProgPoW 0.9.2 (as in this repo) at block 7M. They still do provide a 1% speedup on Vega 64 (~22.55M...

As it happens, I'm actually preparing a pull request with some edits to the man pages, prompted by the "bug" report here: https://www.openwall.com/lists/yescrypt/2024/03/21/1 I also saw this issue and also...

> I'm actually preparing a pull request with some edits to the man pages This is now #185. FWIW, I found the attribution to Openwall Project motivating for me to...

FWIW, I just ran all of our CPU benchmarks on AWS `c5.xlarge` vs. `c6i.xlarge`. Both are AVX-512 capable, so I was unsure which is faster. I was surprised to find...

While "what are we trying to document here?" is an important question, whatever we document better be correct - and right now it is not, hence this issue. I disagree...

Regarding "brute-force attacks are easier / rainbow tables are smaller than you might think from inspecting a leaked shadow file", only someone unfamiliar with password cracking would try to draw...

Your changes look good to me, thanks! As to defining the terms, I think most are self-explanatory whereas "Effective key size" would take too much space to define (more precisely...

I think my current corrections in #185 are sufficient. Sure someone (e.g., a sysadmin) could have questions about the exact meaning of "effective key size", but that is not something...