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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:09:40 +0100
From: Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Rejecting hashes in valid() due to memory allocation failures?
Making sure to only accept valid hashes is certainly a good thing.
But I wonder if changes like this one (just the most recent I found, I'm
sure there are more) are OK:
src/pbkdf2-hmac-sha512_fmt_plug.c
+ if (!(ctcopy = strdup(ciphertext)))
+ return 0;
In such a case, the hash could be valid, but it gets treated as if it
were invalid.
How unlikely is it that a memory allocation failure occurs when trying
to crack a huge number of passwords?
(This could also be caused by strict ulimit settings.)
IMHO, In such a case we shouldn't silently drop valid hashes as if they
were invalid, but instead at least print some kind of error message.
(May be even change the interface and allow a negative return value in
valid(), to signal that there is a more general problem, so that we
don't get thousands of error messages for memory allocation failures...)
Frank
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