Probatio

A set of benchmark tests against different hashing algorithms, using Python implementations. These include:

1. md2

• md5
• sha1
• sha224
• sha256
• sha512
• keccak
• bcrypt

Timing Method

Timing will all be done using clock() in Python, starting the 'clock' at the beginning and stopping at the end. I'll be hashing the standard dictionary on a Unix system which is 285886 words.

Generic specifications of the testing computer

• 2.5GHz
• 8GB of RAM

Licensing

This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License version two (MPLv2). The md2, keccak and bcrypt algorithms are all subject to the individual licenses of the producers.

A copy of the license is distributed with this project, it is also available online here.

Parts

###benchmark.py This is the test bed designed to run each test once - as it does the test it puts the hash into a newfile to create a rainbow table for the dictionary.

###multibenchmark.py This is the test bed designed to run each test multiple times, unlike benchmark it doesn't create a rainbow table

###Controllers This folder contains some of the hashing algorithms used. Such as the md2 and keccak algorithms.

###Times This folder contains all the time results. Individually named files are the results for multibenchmark.py. Main is the results from benchmark.py.

###Dictionary This folder contains the standard dictionary and a password permutation calculator. On the localhost it also contains subsequent testing dictionaries, but given their size they are not hosted on github.

###License This contains a copy of the license for this project

Authors

This project is produced by:

• Eliot Brown - support@eliotbrown.co.uk

Known Bugs

###multibench.py The script allows data to be cached meaning subsequent results after the first pass are quicker than they should be. A solution is under investigation

Troubleshooting

Please contact the author.

Credits and Acknowledgements

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Changelog

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