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Message-ID: <20060201121351.GC7564@openwall.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:13:51 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Incremental Alpha Quagmire
On documenting the john.pot format such that people could easily create
fake john.pot files and generate .chr files out of those, which I don't
think is such a great idea:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:33:55PM -0800, Arias Hung wrote:
> While I certainly am not to dispute what you're saying here, my goal
> is merely to create an appropriate 'mixed case' chr file as you suggested
> that I do by use of a fabricated john.pot file. With my case being
> one of attempting to crack passwords where a combination of upper
> and lower are enforced on the system, my suggestion of documentation
> was made simply due to the lack of options one has as a 'novice' of john
> to create chr files outside outside of what's provided. So in my case
> I'm not sure what the point of recommending that I 'not' create my own
> john.pot.
The point is that you're likely to get a much worse success rate with
your custom .chr file generated in the way we've discussed - just try
it out, compare to the success rate with the provided all.chr, and get
back to us with your results. :-)
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Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
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