john-users - Re: working with large files

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Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 04:16:44 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: working with large files

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:14:53AM +0200, Simon Marechal wrote:
> here is a patch to my tree with the changes. It should however be 
> possible to patch vanilla john versions, except with the part about the 
> rawMD5_fmt.c changes.
...
> It seems to work for me (doesn't crash, seems to clean the salts 
> properly, dramatically increase speed in the rare case you have 100000+ 
> passwords per salt).

This is good stuff (for what it is).  I feel that the patch is misnamed,
though.  By "large files", some people mean files larger than 2 GB on
32-bit systems, which would be another feature (for wordlists).  Maybe
"large-passwd-files" would be it, although it's really "passwords per
salt" that matter here.

Also, let me use this opportunity to advertise these guidelines on how
to make & submit patches for JtR:

	http://openwall.info/wiki/how-to-make-patches

Thanks,

Alexander

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