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Message-ID: <6c04fe99-f95e-4934-b780-1b6587453386@jeffunit.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:01:40 -0700
From: jeff <jeff@...funit.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: question about prince and --restore
On 3/29/2026 11:49 AM, magnum wrote:
> On 2026-03-27 02:07, jeff wrote:
>> I am running john_jumbo_2025_winX64_1_JtR.7z
>>
>> I ran john with prince:
>> john.exe --fork=14 --format=NT --verbosity=2 --prince <my-password-list>
>>
>> It was producing a fair number of found hashes.
>> I needed to reboot my computer.
>>
>> I restarted john:
>> john.exe --restore
>>
>> It has now been 24 hours, and I have not found any more hashes.
>>
>> Here is the exact output when I did the restore:
>> john.exe --restore
>
>> Is there an issue with prince and restore? I don't want to start it
>> from scratch.
>
> Hi, I can think of two possibilities:
>
> 1. Prince doesn't resume optimally. This means if you ran from 1-1000
> and then paused and resumed, it may not continue at 1001 but way
> earlier such as 750. This mmeans you just have to let it run now, and
> it will catch up to the correct point and crack things again.
>
> 2. The Prince mode usually cracks a lot from start and then fewer and
> fewer. Actually to an extent that surprises me, but anyway it's
> normal. You could opt to restart it with some other wordlist. Or
> perhaps try the --prince-loopback mode instead!
>
> magnum
I let it run for a 3 or 4 days, but it found no more passwords. I gave
up on it. as I had 14 threads.
Before I rebooted, it was finding passwords at an acceptable rate.
Not having a checkpoint for 3*14 days of work seems like a bug to me.
i decided to start from scratch with a different dictionary, in a
different directory in case there was anything to debug with the issue.
jeff
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