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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:36:13 +1000
From: Michael Samuel <mik@...net.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Resume for KDEPaste external mode
On 14 June 2013 12:07, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 Jun, 2013, at 3:15 , Michael Samuel <mik@...net.net> wrote:
> > I think all variables should probably be saved - they're global for a
> > reason, right?
>
> Perhaps not that reason. Some of my Unicode modes initialize charset
> tables that does not need to be saved. The dumb32 mode has int[0x20000]...
> that would be half a megabyte per .rec file!
Ok, fair enough. Typing "static" is no big deal.
>
> That being said, there is a chance that the state could be recovered from
> > word in this case...
>
> Calculating endTime from a word? That would be awesome but it seems
> impossible to me.
>
I think it's possible, but not necessarily less work than the current
approach.
> On another note, I implemented an experimental patch that adds an external
> variable "time_now" that is initialized to time(NULL) when starting a job,
> so the endTime could default to "now" without editing john.conf. Not sure
> if I should commit it - I can't see much other use for it. It shouldn't
> harm anything though.
>
That would be excellent. There's at-least a couple more in the works that
would use this.
Do you think it would be easy to add cpp macros/defines too? That would
make customizing some of the password generator replays I have much easier.
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