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Message-Id: <2DB29FFA-4A36-4C07-89BB-C6F37DBE690A@patpro.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 12:21:15 +0100
From: Patrick Proniewski <patpro@...pro.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: -min-len / -max-len oddities with accented letters
On 09 janv. 2016, at 14:42, magnum wrote:
>> ./john --fork=4 --session=MYSESS --rules=ALL --wordlist=mots_francais_plus_plus_alpha.dic -min-len=15 -max-len=16 PWDDUMP.20151205
>>
>> I've just cracked a 14 char length password, with an accented letter.
>> Earlier, playing with -min-len=13 -max-len=14 I've cracked a 12 char password, with an accented letter too.
>>
>> Is that to be expected?
>
> Yes. The -min/max-len options are actually counting bytes and using UTF-8 any non-ASCII character take between two and four bytes.
Thanks magnum, that what I though.
This is really no big deal, for me at least.
pat
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