john-users - Re: Fuzzing with regular expressions

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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:03:25 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fuzzing with regular expressions

On 16 Apr, 2013, at 22:32 , Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Jan Starke <jan.starke@...ofbed.org> wrote:
>> I just changed some things and was able to speed up rexgen by the
>> factor of 5 (on my system) ..
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> How well does rexgen compare against maskprocessor?
> 
> http://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=maskprocessor

I think they do different things. Rexgen is very intuitive for people that are used to regular expressions (and thus totally unintuitive for the rest of the world =).

I'd love to add a native "regexp" cracking mode to JtR so we get rid of the pipe and can resume a session. But we can't use it as long as it's C++.

magnum