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Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 05:28:28 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: john won't load hash file...

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:58:53AM -0400, Dan Baker wrote:
> ./john -format=MD5 passwd.txt
> 
> I get:
> 
> No password hashes loaded
> 
> I have a MD5 hash that I am trying to put into the correct format.   
> The total contents of the passwd.txt file is
> 
> login:97c8e6d0d14f4e242c3c37af68cc376c

This is the correct format.  However, this looks like a hex-encoded raw
MD5 hash.  Out of the box, John supports only FreeBSD-style MD5-based
crypt(3) hashes, which are very different.  Hex-encoded raw MD5 support
for John is available with a contributed patch - or you can just use the
jumbo patch which includes this functionality too.

> I also tried:
> 
> login: username hash:97c8e6d0d14f4e242c3c37af68cc376c
> 
> And
> 
> hash:l97c8e6d0d14f4e242c3c37af68cc376c

These are wrong.

> I'm using the OS X version of John if that matters.

Well, you'll need to pick the source code distribution plus a suitable
patch (either the raw MD5 support patch or the jumbo patch) and build
from source (with the macosx-... "make" target that matches your system).

P.S. You do not need to specify the "--format" explicitly.  In fact,
it's better to not do that, letting John autodetect the hash type for
you (out of ones supported in the given build of John).  This option
should only be used when there are multiple hash types present in the
password file(s) that you pass to John.

-- 
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
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