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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:49:55 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: LZSS rejection

On 2012-08-14 23:56, magnum wrote:
> I still haven't figured LZ out. It's is not exactly like pkzip - from
> what I can see, I got:
> 
> 1. bit 0 (PPM flag) is zero for LZ
> 2. bit 1 (keepOldTable) we can't use (or does it have to be zero?)
> 3. bit 2-5 is first bit length
> ...and so on.

>From testing a couple thousands of files, it seems keepOldTable really
should be zero. That's a good thing, halves the candidates.

magnum


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