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Message-ID: <20150806221601.GB25214@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 01:16:01 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: auditing our use of FMT_* flags
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:32:46PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 2015-08-06 20:09, Solar Designer wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 08:57:29AM +0800, Kai Zhao wrote:
> >>1. FMT_8_BIT
> >>
> >> 1.1 formats have not set FMT_8_BIT but there is at least one
> >> password which does not ignore the 8th bit
> >>
> >> bsdicrypt, has-160, pomelo, pufferfish, Stribog-256, wpapsk
> >
> >I've just fixed bsdicrypt's code. The rest should have the flag set.
> >Kai, you may commit that change.
>
> I'm not sure we want it for WPAPSK. While it technically handles 8-bit
> just fine, a WPAPSK passphrase is 8 to 63 printable ASCII characters
> according to the spec.
>
> IEEE Std. 802.11i-2004, Annex H.4.1: Each character in the pass-phrase
> must have an encoding in the range of 32 to 126 (decimal), inclusive.
Oh, OK. Makes sense.
> I suspect there's one or two implementations that missed this and do
> allow 8-bit but for normal use, I think we should not set FMT_8_BIT
> (because it does/should affect what incremental mode is picked by
> default in Jumbo).
I suspect that technically most implementations (not "one or two") allow
8-bit input. But perhaps this is not commonly actually used, since WPA
passphrases are typically to be input by many people on many devices.
Alexander
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