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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:11:44 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Cracking RACF passwords

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Main Framed <mainframed767@...il.com> wrote:
> Also, most mainframe implementations don't require mixed case and there's
> only three special chars ($, @ and #). On top of that, the basic mainframe
> "shell" called TSO doesn't support passwords longer than 7. So basically if
> you're cracking a RACF database start with characters A - Z, 0 - 9, #, @, $
> with a max length of 7 characters.

I see CRACF and JtR showing cracked passwords with length 8. So is the
max length 7 or it is 8?

...

I am not familiar with RULES and creating custom chr files. What
should I do in order to crack RACF password with above mentioned
limitations with JtR? Thanks!

-- 
Cheers,
Dhiru

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