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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:20:37 -0500
From: Jordan Bradley <jordan.w.bradley@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Making a thread safe implementation of bitslice DES
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>
> What character encoding would you want to use on input to JtR, such as
> in wordlists?
Considering that with 2chan style tripcodes, the unicode input is
converted to shift-jis, using anything other than SJIS is pointless as
far as tripcodes are concerned.
>
> BTW, since DES-based crypt(3) uses 7-bit characters, some information
> from those Shift-JIS characters is lost (or at least that's my current
> understanding). It is quite possible to find the corresponding
> 7-bit-only strings instead.
>
> Alexander
I remember reading that on the mailing list somewhere. That's what
makes DES 56 bit correct? Only the lowest 7 bits of the first 8
characters are used.
--
Jordan Bradley
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