Re: [Bcrypt-users] Fork on github

[Guillaume C. <gca...@de...>]

Hi,

Just to notice you that Michael Stapelberg[1] has done a very good job 
on bcrypt[2]: now it uses chunks for all operations. So it unlocks the 
old bcrypt limit on the file size. You can now encrypt files larger than 
your RAM! It now needs more or less 1Mb of RAM to work, no matter what 
the filesize is.


Great thanks to him :)


[1] https://github.com/mstap
[2]  
https://github.com/casta/bcrypt/commit/bba6aa07009cb2a565825ebf52ed998e76359bc0

Le vendredi 10 août 2012 12:14:20 Guillaume Castagnino a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Since some time, I use a home-made patched version of bcrypt to fix
> some memory issues I get (especially, reduce the very high memory
> usage [1], that may interest some people).
> 
> I just cleaned up my fixes and set up a git repository at github:
> https://github.com/casta/bcrypt
> 
> I also did some source code reorganization to suits my needs, and
> dropped the windows specific code: I do the windows build using mingw
> that works very well and allow to use the same source code for both
> Unix and Windows versions.
> 
> Currently tested on windows (7) and Linux (ubuntu 11.04, 12.04 and
> Gentoo)
> 
> There is still room for improvement, especially at the compression
> step: use a stream instead of allocating the entire file at the same
> time, but this would need a lot more code changes.
> 
> 
> Feel free to comment, use, fork again... And thanks to the original
> authors !
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/casta/bcrypt/commit/e9c9c5b6b94815e1b39de90207f5df3
> 913ee4cb4
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Guillaume Castagnino
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