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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:00:52 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: 7z valid()
On 2013-10-01 12:36, Solar Designer wrote:
> Dhiru,
>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 03:38:48PM +0530, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
>> On 10/01/13 at 01:26pm, Solar Designer wrote:
>>> The 7z format is lacking proper valid(). Can you please implement it?
>>> Please test this little task as higher priority than any other JtR
>>> development.
>>
>> I was hoping to get more functionality (and correctness stuff) in-place
>> before doing this part ;(
>
> ... and I am tempted to start requiring proper valid() before you commit
> the very first revision of a new format. ;-)
7z is nowhere near Dhiru's high score in "bwtdt" from two months ago
though. I'll spare you the details, although it was so bad I found it
funny. It did waste some of my time though, again.
Anyway, here's an incomplete list of formats with a valid() similar to
7z: fde, blackberry-es10, cloudkeychain, eCryptfs, EFS, mssql12,
blockchain-opencl, encfs-opencl and RAR5.
Maybe I should enable the "valid killer self-test" by default, even
though it usually segfaults instead of fails with a clue. Heck, I could
just throw any segfaulting format into unused without further notice,
for Dhiru to fix. But even that will waste a lot of MY time and not
Dhiru's. Just as compiling the above list did. And just as opening 10
GitHub issues will.
magnum
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