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Message-ID: <4D37713F.9030801@witherden.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:18:23 +0000
From: Freddie Witherden <freddie@...herden.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Plain Text/No-op Password Format
On 19/01/11 23:02, Solar Designer wrote:
> 4. URL-like %-encoding. That is, always encode chars that need encoding
> (only the percent and the colon characters), but optionally encode any
> other characters as well. Maybe this brings us the best of both worlds
> because it lets us use either the substitution approach (just substitute
> the two "bad" characters) or the encode-all approach. It also allows
> for embedded and encoded linefeeds and terminal control characters. The
> prefix could be "$plain$" or maybe "$percent$" or even "$%$".
URL encoding is quite nice and easy to procure from either `perl` or
`curl`. IIRC it also allows one to be quite aggressive with regards to
whitespace ' ' => %20.
Regards, Freddie.
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