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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 03:47:03 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: issues with 1.7.8-jumbo-5

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 01:11:03AM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 2011-08-03 23:40, Solar Designer wrote:
> >For me, the problem occurs with -jumbo-5, but not with -jumbo-4, but on
> >the other hand -jumbo-4 somehow fails to crack one of 100k passwords
> >(maybe an error in the input file, though).
> 
> Not really an error but it contains one password of 28 characters while 
> the maxlength is 27.

Oh, I am relieved to know it wasn't anything worse than that.

> I just reviewed Jim's changes to wordlist.c. I can't see that -stdin 
> mode is different at all from earlier code (just some if clauses) so 
> maybe that was not what introduced it. But I have narrowed it down to 
> being introduced by *something* in the 0004 patch. Might be a problem 
> with NT_fmt. I'll do some real debugging.

Thank you!

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