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Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 17:11:30 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Advise on best approach (truecrypt pw based on pdf
 file)

On 2015-05-17 12:18, Demian Smith wrote:
> So, this is my last question and with it I wish to apply for the "Most
> stupid question - 2015" award - is it possible, to create a "moving
> interval" rule?

Not in the way you describe below, no. Mainly because I believe we can't 
handle more than 125 characters of input in one line.

> I am thinking to take my wordlist rule, remove all the line breaks so
> that I have a really long stream of chars and then just move the Interval.
>
> Say, my stream would be
> SiadqrfewmnsohabiwtoarotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt
>
> I'd like to have rule (or preoprocessed rule) that walks throught the
> file like this
> [Siad]qrfewmnsohabiwtoarotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt
> [Siadq]rfewmnsohabiwtoarotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt
> [Siadqr]fewmnsohabiwtoarotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt
> (...)
> [Siadqrfewmnsohabiwto]arotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt
> S[iadq]rfewmnsohabiwtoarotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt
> S[iadqr]fewmnsohabiwtoarotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt
> S[iadqrf]ewmnsohabiwtoarotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt
> (...)
> Si[adqr]fewmnsohabiwtoarotwwsbaotmcaaTpthbwuitrubwltetpt

I think this is best done with a perl script or something. Probably very 
trivial but I'll pass for now. Anyone?

magnum

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