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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:13:12 +0100
From: Turko <granturko@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: checking only first 5 characters of a md5 hash

Of course thanks also to Rembrandt and Pietari  ; )

Bye

On 3/11/06, Turko <granturko@...il.com> wrote:
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>
>
> On 3/11/06, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:49:08AM +0100, Turko wrote:
> > [38 lines of context removed]
> > > OK
> >
> > Please try to not quote irrelevant context in your responses.  You did
> > not need to quote all those many lines just to say "OK".
>
>
> Yes you are right. SORRY.
>
>
> There's no point in running this for more than a few seconds.  If it
> > does not crack a password, then $mycode is not set to a string produced
> > by the $code = ... line.
> >
> > > I m sure that $mycode is an existing part of the hash.
> >
> > ...existing "part of the hash" or "the first 5 characters of base64
> > encoding of hex encoding of the MD5 hash"?  Obviously, the script will
> > only crack the latter.
>
>
> Now it works!
> I tried to remove the encoding base 64 and in 5 seconds it found the key !
>
> Thanks a lot Solar for your precious help and support.
> Really.
>
> Bye,
> Turko
>
>
>
>
> --
> L'imbecille cade sulla schiena e si sbuccia il naso. (Proverbio Yiddish).
> Non esistono donne brutte. Dipende solo da quanta vodka bevi (Proverbio
> russo).
>



--
L'imbecille cade sulla schiena e si sbuccia il naso. (Proverbio Yiddish).
Non esistono donne brutte. Dipende solo da quanta vodka bevi (Proverbio
russo).

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