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Message-ID: <20070113091403.GA6587@openwall.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:14:03 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: word length rules
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:36:10PM -0500, Raymond Geiger wrote:
> Now, I KNOW this pw is probably at least 12 characters... Does Salt SHA1
> shrink it down to 8, or does it support longer passwords?
The latter.
> Am I wasting my time trying it with the default length parameters?
It depends on how sure you are that the password is longer than 8
characters (you wrote "probably").
> Should I run john in a different mode than incremental,
If you're sure that the password is longer than 8 characters, then yes.
> or do I need to split the hash,
You can't split this hash. For the few hash types that allow for that,
JtR does it on its own.
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