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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:37:01 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Problem with --show

On 05/31/2012 05:05 PM, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> On 2012-05-31 14:55, magnum wrote:
>>> That's odd. I just confirmed this is not a problem specific to the
>>> contest edition but with magnum-jumbo as well... oh, and it gets worse,
>>> the same happens with released Jumbo-5 too.
>>
>> False alarm, I found the problem. Your pot file is not created by john,
>> is it? It lacks the tags. Not a bug.
>
> It's just not consistent for john to say that something is cracked
> without --show but not with it. IMHO john should either always accept
> them or always reject them.

Good point. I'm not sure why this happens. I think this behavior is 
dictated by the respective format's prepare(), valid() and split() so 
it's not something a core change would fix.

I know I and JimF have identified and discussed the need for being 
promiscuos when reading john.pot (eg. accept bare hashes or deprecated 
tags), and strict when writing to it. This is something we could add to 
the Test Suite.

magnum

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