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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:57:23 +0200
From: Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: identifying patterns to successfully crack more
 passwords

On 18/04/2012 23:46, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> Also having control over the main road of attacks we could avoid useless
> attacks: to avoid bottlenecks like too busy leader and to make such
> restriction more enjoyable checks and review will be done by other users using
> votes. Votes could either make priority of attack higher or make closer to the
> top of a list for review by leader (or leaders) before dispatching (if we have
> such review).
> 
> In addition to votes there could be modification proposals: it should be
> something like new attack description but connected with this showing that it
> replaces old one.
> 
> And as a natural addition I see partial attack descriptions: for instance
> someone found a pattern but do not know how to write rules for that - he
> writes regex or picks pattern by hands and commits it, then someone other
> upgrades such description to full (while it is regex only incremental mode
> could be applied).

Just a little note : all this process could probably be handled by
(possibly customized) third party software, and your server could just
interface with it. I am not sure of what would work best (ticket
tracking system, facebook integration ;) ), but something could be
reusable here.

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