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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:01:23 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: format renames

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:18:17PM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> On 06/19/2012 03:55 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> > I think we can approach these more invasive renames separately, after
> > next jumbo.  Maybe along with JtR 1.8.  Meanwhile, I don't mind starting
> > to use "md5crypt" instead of "Crypt-MD5" and such in formats added in
> > jumbo, so that we have fewer renames to make later.
> 
> May be we can support the old (legacy) names for a while without
> actively advertising them, e.g., not mentioning them in usage output nor
> supporting any bash completion, but allow interrupted sessions to be
> restored.
> We may even allow running new sessions using the old format names.

Yes, we may do that.

Alexander

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