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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 04:44:07 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: john won't load hash file...

Yesterday, I wrote:
> P.S. You do not need to specify the "--format" explicitly.  In fact,
> it's better to not do that, letting John autodetect the hash type for
> you (out of ones supported in the given build of John).  This option
> should only be used when there are multiple hash types present in the
> password file(s) that you pass to John.

I had overlooked one special case - namely, that "--format" is also
needed when the encodings for two distinct hash types look exactly the
same.  This is the case for LM vs. NTLM vs. hex-encoded raw MD5 hashes.

So far, this only applies to builds of John with contributed patches
applied.

Maybe I should enhance John to print a warning when it sees ambiguous
hash encodings like that and "--format" is not used.

-- 
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
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