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Message-ID: <20111220161545.GA10605@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:15:45 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: More variables exported to External mode
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:53:31PM +0100, magnum wrote:
> I see good uses for exporting the current format's max length to an
> External mode variable. For example Ext:repeats should stop if it
> reaches that before it reaches its own max.
Definitely. This is on my to-do. I am going to export flags
corresponding to FMT_CASE and FMT_8_BIT as well. I think I'll have
three variables: cipher_limit or cipher_length (which name is better?),
cipher_case, and cipher_8bit.
> When you added abort/status it looked like a really trivial patch. I
> tried to understand the code, but I don't have a clue how to do it.
I don't think I can easily explain it better than by that patch. Well,
I can say that there's a linked list and we initialize it with some
structs, but I am not sure if that's a better explanation compared to
the source code patch, which I think is self-explanatory.
Anyway, I've just moved this to-do item to my list to consider for the
very next non-jumbo release.
Alexander
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