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Message-ID: <20060407042436.GA17180@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:24:36 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: new at this cracker business
Jay,
I wrote:
> >While the output of John cracking sessions can be informative, that's
> >not what you should be using to obtain the cracked passwords. Use
> >"john --show SAM.txt" instead - this will combine the halves for you.
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:17:13AM +0000, jay rubin wrote:
> When I run the above command line it stated 4 passwords cracked, 4 left
More correctly, it should have been referring to "password hashes", not
"passwords" - where it counts LM hash halves as separate hashes (I know,
this is not perfect).
> but did not try to crack the remaining 4.
Indeed. The "--show" option, as the name suggests, just displays
whatever is already cracked. It does not crack anything new.
If you want John to try to crack some of the remaining hashes, you can
"--restore" a previous cracking session (preferred) or start a new one.
Didn't you say you already had more of these cracked, though? Did you
possibly delete your john.pot and start anew?
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
GPG key ID: B35D3598 fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929 6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598
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