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Message-ID: <20090226212255.GA29065@fear.qoop.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:22:55 -0600
From: "Joshua J. Drake" <jtr-users@...p.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Strange DES for me...
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:36:29PM +0000, Ruben Lara wrote:
>
> So, my doubt is, john can work with 4098 different salts?
> How john work with them or why?
> Am i totally confused?
Ruben,
john uses only the bottom 6 bits of each byte of the salt chars. The
upper two bits of each byte are discarded. It works, and should be
crackable.
--
Joshua J. Drake
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