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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:42:24 +0200
From: Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: problem with disc space for shared files in MJohn

On 07/17/2012 01:47 PM, Aleksey Cherepanov wrote:
> What if someone add one word to the wordlist? (In this case for
> wordlist attack we need to take only one additional word, though if we
> care about more complex attacks like mixing words into passphrases
> then it is much harder to extract the complement.)
> 
> For the first time I think it is not necessary. There are some easy
> checks (number of lines) to help search similar files

Yes, I also think we can just ignore it and wait until someone detects
such a problem.
(Then may beflag this word list file as not to be used for future
attacks, or automatically adjust the voting score for all those attacks
to a negative score.)

Frank

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