Shmoocon Rainbow Table Swapshop

[chris.blazek at gmail.com (Chris Blazek)]

What about breaking the tables up in parts and distributing them  
through torrents?




On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:11 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 February 2010 04:17, Harley Green <harley.s.green at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> > Glad to hear it went so well for the first time!
> > This problem sounds like something perfect for a reliable multicast  
> > file
> > distribution mechanism! Just one host needs to have direct access  
> > to the
> > drive with the tables and
> > loops through the entire set streaming over a multicast capable  
> > network.
> > Then anyone who wants to get the tables just has to listen in and  
> > wait for
> > the cycle to complete.
> > As more people get it more sources can stream to different  
> > addresses sending
> > either different portions of the table set or starting at different  
> > offsets.
> > --Harley
>
> That would have been OK but most people brought USB disks not laptops
> and someone was explaining to me how USB is dumb so has to have the
> host handle most of the processing load. Throw 2 or more disks on and
> the overhead goes way up.
>
> Disk duplication was suggested but that wouldn't work because of
> different size drives, people only wanting parts and people wanting
> updates after other tables have been added.
>
> The best I can come up with without any research is to get some esata
> or external hot plug IDE caddies and a bunch of screwdrivers so people
> who brought enclosed USB disks could pop them out and put them in a
> caddy. Don't know how receptive people would be to voiding their
> warranties. Some would, some wouldn't.
>
> I think putting the seeds on an internal RAID 0 rather than my
> external USB disk would also speed things up a lot, even with the
> current external USB model. I need to do some playing and asking
> around to see what works and what doesn't.
>
> Robin
>
> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So, Shmoocon is over and the swapshop happened. Unfortunately it
> > > wasn't as successful as it could have been but for the first  
> > > attempt I
> > > think it went OK.
> > >
> > > A number of people donated tables and others leached sets, the  
> > > problem
> > > turned out to be that the initial donation was about 300GB and to  
> > > copy
> > > that from one external disk to a second was taking up to 7 hours,  
> > > when
> > > two people were copying that time shot up even more.
> > >
> > > When I get back home to the UK I'll do an inventory of what I
> > > collected and find some way to share it out to those who want  
> > > copies.
> > > I'll also have a play with different methods of running the system  
> > > to
> > > try to drop that time down to something more manageable.
> > >
> > > Thanks to Darren and Larry for donating hardware and the PaulDotCom
> > > crew in general for keeping an eye on the setup while I was running
> > > round doing other con activities.
> > >
> > > Robin
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