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> for Vega GPUs and later, AMD recommends using ROCm installation for compute applications. The question is which driver actually performs better with our kernels. While we're able to get...

Thank you very much for running these tests. > some error was resulting in a SEGFAULT Can you show this (some copy-paste from the terminal from just before the segfault)?...

Thank you @claudioandre-br! > ```diff > + ADD_LDFLAGS="$ADD_LDFLAGS -L$ROCM_INSTALLED/lib/x86_64" > ``` I'm pretty sure @mostwanted002 is on 64-bit, yet didn't need to specify the `/x86_64` part to get our `configure`...

@frank-dittrich I didn't realize we had this issue, but I have no objections to getting it fixed like you propose. Thanks! I see no reason to limit the added tests...

> I intend to fix the offending formats [...] and then enhancing format self test @frank-dittrich Do you still intend to implement these changes, please? @magnumripper and I approved them...

FWIW, it was recently researched and widely publicized that RoboForm until "7.9.14 release on June 10, 2015" had a weak password generator, basing passwords on the current time. We could...

Also https://x.com/RichDevX/status/1796639662544457850 "reverse engineered the password generation function for anyone that wants to build a brute forcing tool (doesn't require the wrapper/admin privs)" [rf-passgen.cpp.gz](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/16117162/rf-passgen.cpp.gz)

There's also https://x.com/gat3way/status/1809682038758515076 referring to https://web.archive.org/web/20130621145929/http://www.gat3way.eu/robo for another weakness from 2013, and sample file and code (unfortunately, not saved on the Internet Archive, at least not as part of that...

Thank you for including so much detail. I guess this makes _you_ the most qualified person to figure it out and contribute an enhancement to our project. Would you try?...

Comment on improving multi-thread scalability for fast hashes within the current formats interface or with minor changes to it: https://github.com/openwall/john/issues/5435#issuecomment-1943686099