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Message-ID: <20151208131953.GA10571@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 16:19:53 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: using --fork for the first time
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 07:34:04AM +0100, Patrick Proniewski wrote:
> I find that I've got a lot of duplicates in john.pot:
>
> $ wc -l john.pot
> 1254 john.pot
>
> $ sort -u john.pot | wc -l
> 979
>
> Is that to be expected? Digging into john.pot shows that most dupes are probably cracked during 'single'.
Like Marek said, yes - it is normal to have some dupes with "--fork",
except with cracking modes that are not supposed to ever produce any
duplicate candidate passwords (e.g., incremental and mask should not).
To see the cracked passwords without dupes, use "--show".
Alexander
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