john-dev - Re: raw-md5-opencl hash type tag

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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:17:53 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: raw-md5-opencl hash type tag

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:22:08AM +0100, magnum wrote:
> On 12 Dec, 2012, at 0:03 , Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> > It is in fact weird that raw-md5-opencl uses a different hash type tag.
> > Perhaps we should make it use $dynamic_0$?  Or make the latter use $MD5$?
> 
> This is a bug. I had no idea. Although I regret we ever started using dynamic tags for non-dynamic formats - it should be the other way round.

Agreed.

> The easiest fix is to switch to $dynamic_0$ in the OpenCL format. Though I'd rather switch to $MD5$ in the others. We could even make the formats understand both but produce any new lines with $MD5$... although such things tend to get messy. And the dynamic format would need to be fixed by Jim, whom I haven't heard from in quite a while now.

I'll leave making the determination to you and Jim.

> Regardless, we could include a script that converts a user's old .pot file after he upgraded, and remove any dupes while at it. Of course, renaming the old one unaltered to john.pot.bak.

This is a last resort approach.  I dislike it.

Alexander