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Message-ID: <e2b5c37630fc22e2a33a1d737170ea5d@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 23:08:02 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: "minimum length forced to 8" for wpapsk ?

On 2016-10-31 17:21, jfoug wrote:
> On 10/31/2016 10:52 AM, Eugene Yarmash wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to use john (v1.8.0) to test wpa security. I want it to
>> generate 10-character passwords, so I've added this to `john.conf`:
>>
>> [Incremental:Test]
>> File = $JOHN/alnum.chr
>> MinLen = 10
>> MaxLen = 10
>> CharCount = 62
>>
>> However, when I run `john --format=wpapsk --session=mysession
>> --incremental=Test data`, it prints:
>>
>>     Note: minimum length forced to 8
>>
>> and still starts with 8-character passwords. What am I missing?
>>
>>
> You are doing nothing wrong.  You have found a bug.
>
> https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/2316
>

I'm not so sure about that. But I might be wrong? What's the exact 
defintion of those options?

I'd use -min-len=10 and -max-len=10 and I'd be upset if that ended up wrong.

magnum

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