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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 13:11:14 +0100
From: Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Incremental attack properties questions

On 01/05/2013 01:00 PM, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> (This shouldn't happen with Markov mode, provided you generate your
> custom stats file with valid input. There's just one exception if a byte
> sequence for a non-ascii character at the end of the word gets cut off
> due to maximum length or maximum Markov level limits.)

Since Markov mode generates words based on 2-byte-frequencies, and since
it generates passwords shorter than maximum length, there will be a
non-neglectable number of words with invalid utf-8 characters,
especially at the end of the word. So you might need to combine --markov
with an --external filter.

Frank

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