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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:19:12 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: 45% wordlist boost just waiting to happen

magnum -

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:34:11PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> There is one caveat though: We are now truncating words as we load them 
> to memory.

This is unacceptable for the reason you give below.

> I'm not sure how things are supposed to work, maybe for a 
> length 27 format we should be able to load eg. a length 32 word, delete 
> 5 characters from the *beginning* of it with a rule, and end up with the 
> remaining 27? If this is supposed to be supported we'll need to tweak it
> a little.

Yes, and it is extremely important for hashes with low truncation length
(7 and 8 with LM and DES-based crypt, respectively).

Thanks,

Alexander

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