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Why prepended salts seem to make MDCrack running slightly slower than with appended salts or no salt at all?

April 26, 2017appended prepended running Salt salts slightly slower

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Why prepended salts seem to make MDCrack running slightly slower than with appended salts or no salt at all?

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With no salt or an appended salt MDCrack uses a double-hashing algorithm where two hashes are generated in a row thus benefiting even more from the use of the L1 CPU cache.