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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:47:20 -0500
From: JimF <jfoug@....net>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: NSLDAPS or SSHA or Salted-SHA1

This is already a git issue.   
https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/1613   I am adding  
Solar's email to that issue.

On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:03:47 -0500, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>  
wrote:

> magnum, Sayantan -
>
> We have this historical format name Salted-SHA1, which I think we should
> get rid of in favor of either NSLDAPS (consistent with NSLDAP, and IIRC
> we also had an NSLDAPS format before?) or SSHA (consistent with SSHA512).
>
> Here are the relevant formats:
>
> [solar@...er src]$ fgrep -il nsldap *.c
> nsldap_fmt_plug.c
> opencl_nsldap_fmt_plug.c
> opencl_nsldaps_fmt_plug.c
> opencl_salted_sha_fmt_plug.c
> salted_sha1_fmt_plug.c
> ssha512_fmt_plug.c
> [solar@...er src]$ fgrep -wl SSHA *.c
> opencl_nsldaps_fmt_plug.c
> opencl_salted_sha_fmt_plug.c
> salted_sha1_fmt_plug.c
>
> So we currently have two OpenCL formats for the same(?) thing -
> opencl_nsldaps_fmt_plug.c and opencl_salted_sha_fmt_plug.c.  Perhaps we
> should only keep the latter code (since it's newer and more elaborate),
> but rename it to the former's filename and format name?  And perhaps we
> should do the same for salted_sha1_fmt_plug.c.
>
> Then, why is opencl_salted_sha_fmt_plug.c GPL'ed?  Sayantan, did you use
> any GPL'ed code when making it?  What code?
>
> Let's figure this out and clean it up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexander

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