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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 22:15:18 +0800
From: noir maru <noirmaru@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: gpg2john working for symmetric encryption?

I've been doing some further testing and specifying the cipher CAST5 with
gpg --cipher-algo CAST5 -c -o data2.tgz.gpg causes this problem, but the
default AES does not.

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:48 PM, noir maru <noirmaru@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> wc export.hash returns:       1       1   16809 export.hash
>
> the file only has one very long line, and it is going directly from the
> output of gpg2john... is there another way than gpg2john export.tgz.gpg >
> export.hash that I should be using to avoid corruption?
>
> when running gpg2john there are some other errors I didn't notice.
>
> Unknown string-to-key(s2k 166)
>
> unknown version (90).
>
> This file is encrypted with CAST5 according to gpg...
>
> --format=gpg didn't make any difference...
>
> I tested it on an AES gpg file and it works. It seems to be CAST5
> specifically...
>
> But I'm not expert in this.
>
> cheers
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 08:26:16PM +0800, noir maru wrote:
>> > i have a file i created with tar -cz export| gpg -c -o export.tgz.gpg
>> >
>> > i run gpg2john export.tgz.gpg > export.hash
>> >
>> > at this point gpg2john complains that MDC is missing. export.hash is
>> > created and that starts with $gpg$*0.......
>> >
>> > and then i run john with ./john --wordlist wordlist.lst export.hash
>>
>> What does this command say? -
>>
>> wc export.hash
>>
>> > there are some errors which i have included below and no password is
>> found,
>> > though the known password is in the wordlist.
>>
>> Of course, nothing would be found when the hashes are misdetected as
>> tripcode.  You may try "--format=gpg" as one of the warnings suggests.
>>
>> However, this doesn't explain why you have so many lines in that file.
>> Did you possibly copy-paste it from another machine and inadvertently
>> introduced many linefeeds?
>>
>> > is gpg2john not working with this kind of symmetric file encryption?
>>
>> I don't know.  Maybe someone else will address this question.
>>
>> But first you need to make sure you don't corrupt the file between the
>> gpg2john and the john invocations, as right now it looks like you did.
>>
>> Of course, I could be wrong in my guess.
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>
>

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