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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 19:16:23 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: JtR on ARM (NEON)

On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 08:38:35PM +0800, Lei Zhang wrote:
> Another phenomenon observed: when I ran `john --test`, pbkdf2-hmac-sha512 and all other formats passed self-tests, but running `john --test --format=pbkdf2-hmac-sha512` would fail. This really strange.

This suggests there's an uninitialized variable being used.  Running
other tests first probably results in something suitable getting written
to it (whether directly or via a previous use of the same memory).

Alexander

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