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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:14:27 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: plaintext truncation
On 2015-08-13 20:57, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 09:09:06PM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
>> To implement this, we probably need to introduce a new format flag.
>> Should we call it FMT_TRUNC? And what should it mean - target system's
>> truncation or JtR's truncation at a length below the target system's?
>
> OK, I think it should be FMT_TRUNC and it should mean the target
> system's truncation, which JtR will replicate (like it does now).
>
> When that flag is not set, JtR will no longer truncate (it will skip),
> so the name FMT_TRUNC will make sense (truncate when this flag is set,
> and do not truncate but rather skip when it is not).
So eg. LM will have FMT_TRUNC whereas our NT format will not.
I opened an issue for this, #1724
magnum
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