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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:11:47 +0400
From: Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan@...me.ru>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Cracking Mountain Lion hashes (WIP)

On 2012-09-10 03:29, magnum wrote:
> On 10 Sep, 2012, at 1:20 , Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan@...me.ru> wrote:
> 
>> On 2012-09-08 15:38, Dhiru Kholia wrote:
>>
>>> Sample Output: lulu.plist:$ml$23923$c3fa2e153466f7619286024fe7d812d0a8ae836295f84b9133ccc65456519fc3$ccb903ee691ade6d5dee9b3c6931ebed6ddbb1348f1b26c21add8ba0d45f27e61e97c0b80d9a18020944bb78f1ebda6fdd79c5cf08a12c80522caf987c287b6d
>>>
>>> Format : filename:$ml$iterations$salt$hash
>>
>> Isn't it better to print user name in the first field as usually done in
>> other formats?
> 
> Good catch, the file name is the actual user name so you should strip '.plist' from every entry. This will help Single mode produce much less worthless candidates.

In fact I thought about an attribute 'name' in the source .plist file.
But it's even better -- there are also attributes 'uid', 'gid',
'realname', 'home', 'shell', so full gecos can be constructed.

> BTW most *2john tools that put the filename in the username field
> should strip the path for the same reason. I did that to rar2john. The
> filename might be useful for Single mode, but probably not the
> [cracker's] full path.

Full path may be good for keeping track which hash is for which file.
But I'm not sure where it's better to put it.

-- 
Alexander Cherepanov

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