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Message-ID: <CAHv4kXiiJbTOkSHgjdvfqkCEHK+QNHfEbkherCs08JnDN5jFRQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 07:37:33 +0200
From: Jan Starke <jan.starke@...ofbed.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fuzzing with regular expressions

Magnum,

you're right. I quickly updated the online documentation (btw, running
rexgen without parameters gives you a documentation, too). Maybe I should
support something like -h or --help.

I also fixed the problem with quantifiers and references, but only on my
small notebook. I will commit the changes when I'm at home, so that since
tomorrow there should be no known bugs anymore :-)

Regards, Jan


2013/5/21 magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>

> On 21 May, 2013, at 22:59 , Jan Starke <jan.starke@...ofbed.org> wrote:
> > i've added the requested feature. rexgen is becoming a very nice tool
> with
> > this one, so thank you for your thoughts and ideas so far
>
> Excellent. It still builds on OSX and you seem to have fixed the other
> issues (like .dylib vs .so): I had a private hard-coded patch that I no
> longer need to apply.
>
> > It is working, so one can test it now. But please be aware this feature
> is
> > alpha level only: using back references and pipe references together with
> > quantifiers (something like ([0-9])abcd\1{2,3}) results in a segfault.
> This
> > is my next task for now.
> >
> > I kind of documented the new feature on http://code.google.com/p/rexgen/
>
> I think you should also add the -f option to the "Which parameters are
> supported?" section on that page.
>
> Thanks!
> magnum
>
>
> > 2013/4/20 magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
> >
> >> The suggestion I mentioned is not on this list but in your "issues":
> >> http://code.google.com/p/rexgen/issues/detail?id=5
> >>
> >> magnum
> >>
> >>
> >> On 19 Apr, 2013, at 22:55 , Jan Starke <jan.starke@...ofbed.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> yeah, there should be a simple way of creating a C (without ++)
> >> interface.
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately, I have some problems reading full email threads. I must
> >> work
> >>> on this. If I understand you right, you want to combine another
> wordlist
> >>> generator with rexgen, e.g. to extend simple wordlists, like this:
> >>>
> >>> cat wordlist.txt | rexgen 're1<pipeinput>re2' | ...
> >>>
> >>> I still had a similar idea, because we sometimes could need something
> >> like
> >>> this. I still have some work to do on the current features, but this
> will
> >>> be the next feature.
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards, jan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2013/4/16 magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
> >>>
> >>>> On 16 Apr, 2013, at 22:17 , Jan Starke <jan.starke@...ofbed.org>
> wrote:
> >>>>> I just changed some things and was able to speed up rexgen by the
> >>>>> factor of 5 (on my system) without using threads; additionally the
> >>>>> ordering of the values is partly random. Maybe you want to give it a
> >>>>> try...
> >>>>
> >>>> I am delighted to report that under OSX (built with gcc/g++) r44 is
> 11.5
> >>>> times faster than the last version I tried (which was r24 or so).
> >> Previous
> >>>> speed about 2.3MB/s (405K words/s) and now over 27 MB/s (4.6M
> words/s),
> >>>> using '[a-z]{0,5}'. This is still a bottleneck for very fast formats
> >> but,
> >>>> well, any way of producing candidates is and with the finer
> granularity
> >> of
> >>>> a regexp you might gain total time anyway.
> >>>>
> >>>>> BTW, we've been able to crack a bunch of passwords during a pentest
> >>>>> with rexgen and JtR, because we had an idea about how the passwords
> >>>>> could look like and we could describe this using a simple regex :-)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, for some patterns (with variable length parts like
> >> "abc[0-9]{1,3}def"
> >>>> there's just no way to do it (that easily) with any other tool I know
> >> of.
> >>>> Not to mention wilder regexps and back references!
> >>>>
> >>>> Like I just wrote in another post I'd love to have this as a native
> mode
> >>>> in JtR but we can't use C++. OTOH, maybe we can add a HAVE_REXGEN in
> >>>> Makefile, stating that we have librexgen installed, and write a mode
> in
> >> C
> >>>> that just calls the lib.
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW did you see my suggestion of supporting append/prepend to words
> read
> >>>> from stdin? That would be awesome.
> >>>>
> >>>> magnum
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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