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Message-ID: <4E412854.9070401@bredband.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:30:12 +0200
From: magnum <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: "valid character" class
On 2011-08-09 14:02, Solar Designer wrote:
> We could also want to introduce a class for control chars, though.
> By default, it'd cover whatever chars are usually the control ones on
> terminals - see the DumbForce sample. However, for example,
> --encoding=cp1251 will turn most chars in the 0x80 to 0x9f range to
> non-control, even though they will remain risky to the terminal...
...
> So we'll have ?y for valid and ?O for non-control - similar, but
> different (as you explained above).
Good idea, I think we should go with that.
> Oh, and we could want to allocate a consecutive range of character class
> letters (maybe a very small range) for user-defined classes. Maybe we
> could use digits rather than letters, but then there won't be automatic
> complements.
Do you mean user-defined as in john.conf, so eg. a ?2 class would
correspond to characters defined in some section in the config file?
>> One effect of doing so is ability to reject/accept any UTF-8 encoded
>> words (from a mixed wordlist like RockYou.txt) using such rules because
>> *all* non-ascii characters in UTF-8 contains octets in that range.
>
> In what range? Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. There are
> UTF-8 characters that are not ASCII yet that do not contain octets in
> the 0x80 to 0x9f range. So perhaps you meant something else.
No, I was wrong :) The continuation bytes are in the range 0x80-0xBF, I
had it as -0x9F in my head.
magnum
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