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Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 19:21:40 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: inconsistent number of cracked hashes in dynamic_6

On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 11:29:06PM +0200, arcctgx wrote:
> I ran into a problem with the dynamic_6 format in john-1.7.9-jumbo5. I 
> was trying to crack a list of hashes using the password.lst dictionary 
> provided with john-1.7.9.
...
> I did that many times, and the number of cracked hashes varied from 
> session to session. On the other hand, john-1.7.8-jumbo7 always cracks 
> exactly 64 hashes.

Thank you for the problem report.

I guess JimF is the one to look into this.

Meanwhile, you could want to try linux-x86-any and generic builds.
These will indeed run slower, but the problem might be gone, and either
way this might give JimF a hint as to where the problem is.

Alexander

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