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Message-ID: <CA+E3k92GEGJXO0e_KJiKxyfaTfEtny0sUk-EMyztawTjoYzB8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 08:38:47 -0800
From: Royce Williams <royce@...ho.org>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: John the Ripper 1.8.0
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Royce Williams <royce@...ho.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>
> > I've just released John the Ripper 1.8.0, available from the usual place:
>
> [snip]
>
> > The new status line may include: successful guess count ("g"), session
>
> The new status line is excellent! I do have one minor minor feature request.
>
> Please automatically column the new status line to improve readability, as in:
>
> 1 6g 0:00:00:38 0% 2/3 0.1543g/s 1544p/s 10929c/s 11274C/s denis..derek
> 4 0g 0:00:00:38 5% 2/3 0g/s 1479p/s 5958c/s 6238C/s sparrows..spencers
> 2 1g 0:00:00:38 9% 2/3 0.02572g/s 1514p/s 10982c/s 11327C/s Snoopy1..Abcdefg1
> 3 0g 0:00:00:38 3% 2/3 0g/s 1524p/s 5954c/s 6234C/s Pyramid..Raymond
>
> ... instead of:
>
> 1 6g 0:00:00:38 0% 2/3 0.1543g/s 1544p/s 10929c/s 11274C/s denis..derek
> 4 0g 0:00:00:38 5% 2/3 0g/s 1479p/s 5958c/s 6238C/s sparrows..spencers
> 2 1g 0:00:00:38 9% 2/3 0.02572g/s 1514p/s 10982c/s 11327C/s Snoopy1..Abcdefg1
> 3 0g 0:00:00:38 3% 2/3 0g/s 1524p/s 5954c/s 6234C/s Pyramid..Raymond
Someone pointed out a mail-client issue on my side that obscured my
point -- my apologies. Gmail has no option to disable word wrap when
composing in plain text.
Put briefly, when running with --fork, big differences in width
between the same column on different output lines -- say, between
"0g/s" and "0.02572g/s" -- can make the multi-line output quite a bit
harder to read. Aligning the columns would be a nice-to-have.
It's a pretty low priority, of course. The longer that John runs, the
more likely it is that the numbers in each column will have the same
number of digits. But the early values can be wide enough to
significantly decrease readability, and if you're running on a system
that's performing other tasks, that variation can persist.
--
Royce Williams
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