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Message-ID: <571D699F.6020008@openwall.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 19:49:35 -0500
From: jfoug <jfoug@...nwall.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Rules 'C' command, wtf???


On 4/24/2016 6:46 PM, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> For c, I expected exactly the current behavior, since I knew it worked 
> like this for years, but I never used C, and so I didn't care. For 
> just upper casing the first character, I would have used lt (plus some 
> extra logic to avoid duplicates in case l and c had been tried 
> before...). If the c and C implementations change, this change should 
> be documented. Frank 

The change certainly could be documented as going away, but it never was 
documented as existing in the first place.  In fact the actual behavior 
was against what the documentation stated. It now actually properly 
follows the documentation.

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