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Message-ID: <CANO7a6xTzu1wcNAEv2xRRtJeGYHdjS72MTj-AmS7WE3DE9sfDw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:20:58 +0530
From: Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: sshng2john patch
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:40 PM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 Jan, 2013, at 13:06 , Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 2013 4:29 PM, "magnum" <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
>> > On OSX and lacking PyCrypto, the patch makes it work. What exactly does "limited features mode" mean?
>>
>> It means that we won't be able to detect blank passwords.
>>
>> I think that this feature can be dropped entirely safely.
>>
>> It is a leftover from ssh2john days where we had this problem of not being able to detect unencrypted keys. This is no longer a problem.
>
> Great, please drop that warning and commit it to both branches.
Can't we just mute the warning for now?
Majority of code in sshng2john.py will become unused after this
feature is removed. I am a bit nervous pushing such a big change ATM.
--
Dhiru
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