john-users - Re: WINDOWS 2000 off line

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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:12:51 +0200
From: Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: WINDOWS 2000 off line

Hari Sekhon wrote:
> you need to patch john with the cache hash support and then pass the
> parameter format=mscash (I made the mistake to spelling this properly
> when I was first trying to do this and it doesn't work to say mscache,
> it has to be mscash - a M$ joke?).

I think this important topic requires clarification. The hashes have
been called "Microsoft cache hashes" by Arnaud Pilon after reversing the
code responsible for that. I'm pretty sure they have a more official
name at Microsoft, unknown to us (we liked giving this name better than
searching for it).

So, MS CAche haSH = MSCASH

It also is a m$ joke.

The name is actually the best part of the plugin (by far, I know...).