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Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:32:07 +0100
From: Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Markov model used to generate stats file?

On 08/12/2011 02:56, Wesley Tansey wrote:
> Thanks Simon. Do you remember if you generated it based on unique passwords
> or weighted by password frequency? For example, if you are looking at
> "password" which appears in the a few thousand times, do you count that as
> one example to train your MC on, or thousands?

I did both, but I believe I only submitted the one based on unique
passwords. However, results were fairly close (with many passwords,
there is a lot of overlap anyway with stuff like password, password1,
password2, etc.).