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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:20:26 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Either my test script is b0rken or BF has an 8-bit bug
magnum -
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 03:08:52AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> Now I am wondering how Authen::Passphrase avoided the bug (IIRC, it used
> my code from crypt_blowfish), and why I am getting different hashes for
> 8-bit chars produced by crypt() in Perl on Owl (which uses crypt_blowfish
> in glibc on Owl). I'll need to investigate that. If crypt_blowfish has
> the bug too, and it looks like it does, that's pretty bad, because it
> means we have incorrect (incompatible with OpenBSD's) hashes in the wild
> as well. Moreover, those might be weaker than expected, as sign
> expansion in the OR operation may be overwriting key bits from other
> characters (the exact impact needs to be analyzed). I am quite
> embarrassed of that. I should have tested the 8-bit chars vs. OpenBSD
> myself, years ago (when I released crypt_blowfish separately from JtR).
I've just tried my Perl script on OpenBSD 4.6, invoking crypt(). It
produced the same hash as I am getting on Owl. However, that hash is
not cracked by John, neither with nor without the fix I posted. I'll
investigate further.
Alexander
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