owl-users - Re: John the Ripper

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:49:56 -0800
From: Brian Hatch <bri@...kr.org>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: John the Ripper



> i hope i right here for a john question,
> 
> i try to recover 1 md5 pasword.
> $ cat md5.txt
> user_39:2eed9bd8835cd1367248abab12950368
> 
> $ ./run/john  -format:MD5 md5.txt
> Loaded 0 passwords, exiting...

An MD5 password in /etc/shadow format would look more like

user_39:$1$SALTSALT$MD5MD5MD5MD5MD5MD5MDMD:::::::

The $1$ indicates it's an md5 hashed password.  Other
hashes exist as well, for example OpenBSD's use of
blowfish.

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