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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:10:28 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: sshng2john patch
On 26 Jan, 2013, at 13:06 , Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2013 4:29 PM, "magnum" <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 25 Jan, 2013, at 3:16 , Dhiru Kholia <dhiru.kholia@...il.com> wrote:
> > > This patch fixes problems found by Frank earlier.
> > >
> > > sshng2john.py used to break in case PyCrypto was missing. Things
> > > should be better now.
> > >
> > > Handling of un-encrypted private keys was broken. This patch should
> > > hopefully fix this problem as well.
> > >
> > > Please review and test.
> >
> > On OSX and lacking PyCrypto, the patch make it work. What exactly does "limited features mode" mean?
>
> It means that we won't be able to detect blank passwords.
>
> I think that this feature can be dropped entirely safely.
>
> It is a leftover from ssh2john days where we had this problem of not being able to detect unencrypted keys. This is no longer a problem.
Great, please drop that warning and commit it to both branches.
magnum
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