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Message-ID: <20121018050403.GA15870@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:04:03 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: cracking 40-bit RC4 keys of Office and PDF files
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:22:29AM +0530, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:08 AM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> > Not sure why really.
>
> Maybe Solar can answer this one.
I don't know. Placement of the #pragma should affect efficiency, but
not correctness (comparing these two alternatives only).
However, I do know that magnum should have set a reasonable Subject for
this thread. No one on john-dev cares that we had a long-running
process on a certain machine some days ago. Similarly, no one on
john-dev cares where this discussion has been moved from. I've fixed
the Subject now.
> I am working on a similar key brute-forcer for PDF files where the key
> calculation is expensive (50 rounds of MD5).
Huh? GuaPDF cracks these in about the same time that GuaWord/GuaExcel
do, so I think that you're wrong. Perhaps the MD5s are inside the loop
only when you're cracking passwords and not keys?
Alexander
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