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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:24:02 +0200
From: Albert Veli <albert.veli@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Hex-encoding of words
Hi Magnum et al.
During the recent passwordctf I used john in parallell with hashcat and
noticed that hashcat encodes some words using hex format.
Pasted from IRC:
20:04 < trebla> btw, there are some passwords that I found with hashcat
that can't be sent as ascii or utf-8, for instance:
20:04 < trebla> a7b12496acf916b593bda55d3b7562dcc7c9c337:$HEX[7300733932]
20:04 < trebla> aa6122c3e8239538db9beff5fd4ca1e4e77045d9:$HEX[3434003536]
20:04 < trebla> e15310184d6a28e3c043a462c06d61e2e2a28b98:$HEX[2d002d3933]
What is your opinion on supporting this hex-syntax for john? It would make
interoperability between john and hashcat easier.
The obvious corner case to look out for is if the password actually begins
with the ascii string '$HEX[' :-)
In that case john has to make sure it is always encoded using hex format,
for instance like this:
$HEX[244845585b6a6f686e5d]
The password in this case would be:
echo '244845585b6a6f686e5d' | xxd -r -ps
$HEX[john]
Cheers!
Albert
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