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Message-ID: <01a601cd7670$a93b1a50$fbb14ef0$@net>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 15:50:50 -0500
From: "jfoug" <jfoug@....net>
To: <john-dev@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: bleeding-jumbo and contest edition fail to recognize cracked dynamic_21 hashes

Here is the patch, but I fear, this one is not going to be pretty, trying to
merge it.

This was made against current j7-fixes.

Jim.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: magnum [mailto:john.magnum@...hmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 3:28 PM
>To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
>Subject: Re: [john-dev] bleeding-jumbo and contest edition fail to
>recognize cracked dynamic_21 hashes
>
>Just do a patch for -fixes. I'm pretty sure git will sort it out. If
>not, I'll give you a holler.
>
>magnum
>
>
>
>On 2012-08-09 22:23, jfoug wrote:
>> I have found the issue here (I hope).  Recently added, was writing
>> hashes out in a salt-safe manner, within dynamic. This was done to
>> work around some known issues, such as \n : $ NULL, or other naughty
>> characters being contained within the salt field, causing JtR's string
>> handling and field splitting functions to fail.
>>
>> Well, there were 2 places within loader which required changes.  One
>> was in
>> load_pot_line() the other (which was not done), as in show_pot_line().
>> I am not sure why the 2 functions, but I had only added code to the
>> load_pot_line.
>>
>> This also affects the j7 release candidate  I have made some changes
>> here also.
>>
>> I may need to talk to magnum offline a little, to figure out just how
>> to push this out. It may be best if I make a patch for j7-rc, for
>> jumbo, and for bleeding.  Unfortunately, I think that all of these may
>> have some collision issues, especially within the loader code, which
>> is different between the versions.
>>
>> Jim.
>>
>>> From: jfoug [mailto:jfoug@....net]
>>>
>>> This was the $HEX$ fix (un-hex) which people reverted out, because it
>>> was causing some problem with -show=left, or something like that.  I
>>> have not gotten back on this.
>>>
>>> Jim.
>>>
>>>> From: Frank Dittrich [mailto:frank_dittrich@...mail.com]
>>>>
>>>> I can reproduce this with 1.7.9.6-c5 and with bleeding-jumbo, but
>>>> not with magnum-jumbo or john-1.7.9-jumbo-6-fixes.
>>>>
>>>> When I just run
>>>>
>>>> ./john hashes-4.dynamic_21.txt
>>>>
>>>> john starts cracking and soon cracks the first hash for ed.fox
>>>> (password: edFox) in single mode.
>>>>
>>>> When I interrupt, and repeat the same command, john should find at
>>>> least the last hash being cracked, but it doesn't.
>>>> john --show also shows 0 cracked.
>>>>
>>>> But the hash is correctly stored in john.pot.
>>>> After repeating this experiment several times, I have exactly the
>>>> same line in john.pot for each new test.
>>
>>
>>


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