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Wow. Thanks. I wonder how this remained that way for so long. I guess we were primarily testing crack removal speed with large unsalted hash lists, and secondarily perhaps with descrypt where it's 4096 salts. |
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crk_remove_salt() currently searches the salt list from the head each time
a salt is removed. With very large numbers of unique salts and a candidate
that cracks many of them, this produces near-quadratic behavior.
This change tracks the link pointing to the currently processed salt in
crk_salt_loop(), allowing the normal current-salt removal path to unlink it
in O(1). The existing list search remains as a fallback for other callers.
I encountered this with a dynamic format where each username effectively
forms a unique salt.
Benchmarks:
~500k unique salts, 2,783 cracks
~1M unique salts, 5,459 cracks
~1M zero-hit baseline
Correctness check: