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Message-ID: <20130416200246.GA10454@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:02:46 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Endianity in input files

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 09:12:58PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 16 Apr, 2013, at 19:55 , Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan@...me.ru> wrote:
> > If $-prefixes are to be revised maybe they could be simplified at the same time.
> 
> Anything specific in mind? This could be a good opportunity to drop the first, redundant, '*'. It occurs in all or nearly all of Dhiru's formats.

If we do this, how about we also replace all *'s (bad choice, I think)
with $'s (traditional since md5crypt in 1994).

> $zip$*0*1*8005b1b7d077708d*dee4 - old, machine-endian last field
> $zip$0*1*8005b1b7d077708d*dee4  - new, little-endian last field

$zip$0$1$8005b1b7d077708d$dee4  - new, little-endian last field

Alexander

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