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Message-ID: <7e762231-f08e-71c3-1433-87fbb58a407d@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:11:54 +0200
From: Marek Wrzosek <marek.wrzosek@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Error: wordlist contains NULL bytes - aborting
W dniu 14.09.2016 o 21:37, Frank Dittrich pisze:
> "cracking" SHA1 hashes of random garbage bytes are hardly a use case
> john should support, IMHO.
Apparently hashcat cracks random garbage "passwords" too.
>
> Is there any system which really accepts random bytes including line
> feeds and null bytes in passwords?
I don't know, ask patpro ;-)
> How do you enter such passwords as a user? And even if you can, should
> you ever do this?
I know person, who entered alt-codes on windows at login, but I don't
remember if he told me what kind of characters they was.
> How would you know (as a user who didn't audit the system in use) that
> the system will not silently convert your
>
> "pass\0word" into pass?
>
You'll never know, until you try to crack it.
--
Marek Wrzosek
marek.wrzosek@...il.com
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