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Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:57:01 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: RFC on format alias coding

On 2014-04-05 16:04, jfoug@....net wrote:
> The biggest question I have, is what would people implementation
> details be.  I can think of things like this:
> 1. alias's would be handled in a stand alone file (possibly a .conf
> included by john.conf).
> 2. the alias engine would need to load all formats listed in this config file.
> 3. I believe that prepare()/valid() can be called prior to init, so
> the alias would not need to init the formats (hopefully).
> 4. at proper points within JtR coding (mostly loading, etc), calls
> would be made to the alias engine, to see if a hash matches one of
> the alias's for the currently being used format.

Having the aliases in john.conf sounds like a good idea.

I'm trying to recall different use cases. We have things like MD5 vs. 
dynamic_0, and NT vs dynamic_33 but these are no different from what you 
are doing now. I can't remember any "different" situation right now.

magnum

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