Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20150809161623.GC17175@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 19:16:23 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: JtR on ARM (NEON)

On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 08:38:35PM +0800, Lei Zhang wrote:
> Another phenomenon observed: when I ran `john --test`, pbkdf2-hmac-sha512 and all other formats passed self-tests, but running `john --test --format=pbkdf2-hmac-sha512` would fail. This really strange.

This suggests there's an uninitialized variable being used.  Running
other tests first probably results in something suitable getting written
to it (whether directly or via a previous use of the same memory).

Alexander

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.