john-dev - Kai's weekly report #13

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Message-ID: <CABtNtWHWVEMTCAQO3ahvx2APyNddRksJ78EvgTkBZAsGn202QA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:15:10 +0800
From: Kai Zhao <loverszhao@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Kai's weekly report #13

Hello,

Accomplishments:

1. Merge the --fuzz option into bleeding-jumbo.

Add --fuzz as an optional for jumbo.

https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/commit/e165e8682d6a127c17c0a919a1e0499fb3c19d82

Find one bug by --fuzz.

https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/1582

2. Identify improperly set or missing FMT_* flags. (not finished)

Have not found bugs by now.

3. Discuss coding style and create README.coding-style

https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/pull/1584/files

Priorities:

1. Identify improperly set or missing FMT_* flags.
   Identify some flags within --test-full option, such as
   FMT_8_BIT, FMT_CASE.

2. Improve --test-full option.

2.1 Support dynamic and all the formats.
2.2 Handle formats which allows false positives.
2.3 Combine self-test and benchmark.

3. Figure out which C standard we want, document it, convert to it.

Best regards,

Kai

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