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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:10:36 +0100
From: Turko <granturko@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: checking only first 5 characters of a md5 hash
On 3/11/06, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:49:08AM +0100, Turko wrote:
> [38 lines of context removed]
> > OK
>
> Please try to not quote irrelevant context in your responses. You did
> not need to quote all those many lines just to say "OK".
Yes you are right. SORRY.
There's no point in running this for more than a few seconds. If it
> does not crack a password, then $mycode is not set to a string produced
> by the $code = ... line.
>
> > I m sure that $mycode is an existing part of the hash.
>
> ...existing "part of the hash" or "the first 5 characters of base64
> encoding of hex encoding of the MD5 hash"? Obviously, the script will
> only crack the latter.
Now it works!
I tried to remove the encoding base 64 and in 5 seconds it found the key !
Thanks a lot Solar for your precious help and support.
Really.
Bye,
Turko
--
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russo).
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