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Message-Id: <6201EA43-5C13-44C8-88C5-335475935AF3@shinnok.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 22:04:12 +0300
From: Shinnok <admin@...nnok.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [Johnny] Task 1.5.1 Manual plaintext guessing


> On Jun 4, 2015, at 10:03 PM, Shinnok <admin@...nnok.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 2, 2015, at 4:59 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 05:03:34PM -0400, Mathieu Laprise wrote:
>>> How is --stdin supposed to work ? I'm not sure to understand. I know for
>>> sure that the password for one of my hash is "baseball". I did ./john
>>> --stdin pw1.txt . I got a command line, I enter "baseball" and press ENTER.
>>> A new command line appears to enter another word. How do I trigger the
>>> attack with --stdin?
>> 
>> Your guesses entered so far will actually be checked against the hashes
>> when either all of the buffers fill up (stdin stream buffer and JtR's
>> own plaintext keys buffer, the latter one of which is hash type and
>> build specific) or there's EOF on the input stream.  So in your specific
>> example, you'd press Ctrl-D.  In Johnny, you'd flush the Johnny-side
>> buffer (if any exists) and then close the file descriptor.  Obviously,
>> this will also cause john to terminate once it's checked the plaintexts
>> entered up to that point.
> 
> Mathieu, is this working for you? I noticed in your latest revision you're closing the readChannel after writing the passphrase, which I'd assume is correct.

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