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Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 02:12:37 +0400
From: Aleksey Cherepanov <aleksey.4erepanov@...il.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: file synchronization backend for MJohn

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:15:23PM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> On 05/20/2012 11:02 PM, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> > No commit should remove or change any line in a pot file, only added
> > lines should occur.
> > 
> > For the list of remaining hashes, the opposite is true:
> > Every commit which changes such a file should just delete lines.
> 
> Other files should never change once they are added to the repository.
> 
> Let's say we decide to use certain word list files (facebook first
> names, rockyou, ...).

They could contain a mistake we want to fix.

> If we want to keep track about what rules have already been tried
> against a particular hash type, it really helps if the word list files
> in question don't change their contents.

Then we could track file+version instead of file. But this indeed
makes things complex.

Regards,
Aleksey Cherepanov

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