john-users - Re: New John 1.7.6 OpenMP Binaries for MacOSX and Windows

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:08:01 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: New John 1.7.6 OpenMP Binaries for MacOSX and Windows

Jim, Erik, W.A. -

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:38:41AM -0500, jfoug wrote:
> >From: websiteaccess
[...]
> >Loaded 1821691 password hashes with 196 different salts (Raw MD5 [gen])
[...]
> Using raw-md5 mode, by linking to md5_gen(0) functions
> <b>with 196 different salts</b> (Raw MD5 [gen])
> 
> Buggy behavior of md5_gen() only recently fixed.  If there was any data
> after the hash (GECOS stuff), then md5_gen was causing john to run the
> multi-salt code.

This means that john-1.7.6-jumbo-12-early-release-md5-gen-3 on the wiki
is not suitable for actual use (it's just a development milestone).

Jim - you could want to mark it as such or replace it with a version
that fixes the known bug (but makes no other changes yet).

Thanks,

Alexander