john-users - Re: hmailserver patch has errors, error when compiling in Linux x86 64-bit and 32-bit

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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 04:07:29 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: hmailserver patch has errors, error when compiling in Linux x86 64-bit and 32-bit

James, Robert -

First of all, thank you for your efforts on this!

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:44:28PM -0500, Robert Harris wrote:
> hmailserver_fmt.c: undefined reference to `SHA256_Init'

My understanding is that SHA-256 is only available starting with
OpenSSL 0.9.8, whereas the jumbo patches require 0.9.7+ so far (not
necessarily 0.9.8+).  So if we merge the hmailserver support patch, we
make the jumbo patch require 0.9.8+, which is a bit of a problem
(although it's becoming more acceptable over time).  Maybe we should
include a SHA-256 implementation into the patch itself for now.

Another comment I had is that maybe we need "generic salted SHA-256"
support, similar to what I did for SHA-1 and MD4 recently, instead of
the specialized hmailserver support patch.

Thanks again,

Alexander