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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:51:31 +0400
From: Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan@...me.ru>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: mscash2 / hmac-md5 ambiguity
On 2012-07-24 03:05, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> On 07/24/2012 12:41 AM, jfoug wrote:
>> I think we are now pushing over 120 formats, written by different people.
>> Numerous of these formats handle data in multiple ways, and/or
>> handle/convert raw hash strings as valid data. That is where ambiguity
>> creeps in. There is absolutely no way around the ambiguity. It simply is
>> not going to happen, unless we force a unique string for each format, and
>> that will force users to have to modify the 'native' hash strings they have
>> in hand, just to fit into JtR.
>
> I think Alexander was talking about such collisions that remain even if
> we convert all password hash files into a form that uses the canonical
> representation (for those formats where such a canonical representation
> exists). This could be a scripted one-time activity (provided it is easy
> to identify the hash format that is used in a certain file.
Yeah, I'll try to write a script to do it accurately. Though simple
--pot=/dev/null --show=left is probably enough for the contest.
> If Korelogic will mix several ambiguous hashes of different formats into
> one file, then this approach wouldn't work.
> (Because after cracking the first few passwords, you might assume that
> all the other similar hashes in that same file also have the same format.)
That would be a trap:-)
--
Alexander Cherepanov
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