john-users - Re: John the Ripper does not detect openssl MD5 hashes

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Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:53:13 +0000
From: john-users@...-jedi.co.uk
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: John the Ripper does not detect openssl MD5 hashes

On 02/06/2011 11:25 PM, Martin T wrote:

[snip]
> root@...tin-desktop:~# john --wordlist=/usr/share/john/password.lst
> --format=MD5 md5crypt
> No password hashes loaded
> root@...tin-desktop:~# john --wordlist=/usr/share/john/password.lst
> --format=raw-MD5 md5crypt
> No password hashes loaded
> root@...tin-desktop:~#
> 
> 
> As I understand, john does not detect the MD5 hash inside my md5crypt
> file. What might cause this? Or am I doing something wrong?

I've had a similar lack of success with Sun-MD5 which has the format
"username:$md5$password" instead of "username:$1$password" like BSD.

Is Sun's implementation supported? Otherwise I must be doing something
wrong too!

Regards,

Simon.