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Message-ID: <20070227143946.GA30321@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:39:46 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Splitting the Charset into chunks
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:32:08PM +0100, Pablo Fernandez wrote:
> I'm trying to find a way to split any charset into a given (very high) number
> of disjoint chunks and then create a new charset file with each chunk.
While there's a way to split a charset file like that, exactly the same
effect is better achieved by having the code in inc.c skip some order[]
entries. The number of chunks won't be very high, though - there will
be just a few hundred of reasonably large ones (with order[] indices of
around 2000 for the default CHARSET_* parameters).
There's no better way to split the charset files, assuming that the code
in JtR remains unchanged; even if you would drop some characters from
some character positions, those characters would be re-added with
inc.c: expand(), so your different nodes would eventually be trying the
same candidate passwords and they would do so in a less optimal order.
> Maybe the code used to create the default ones may help? Is it available?
Yes, the code is available - it's just the --make-charset option to JtR
and the corresponding code is found in charset.c.
> Also I found it very difficult to understand the insights of a charset file,
> I have seen no documentation about it in the code. Is there any?
It's just the comments in charset.h.
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