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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:31:23 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: "john-dev@...ts.openwall.com" <john-dev@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Endianity in input files

I did some testing of *2john programs on big-endian and noticed a problem that might be wide-spread: zip2john produces infiles that can only be cracked with a same-endian build of John. That is, some of the hex fields (integers) are in machine's endianness.

This is not a huge problem but we might want to fix it (in bleeding?). I think all hex fields should be LE regardless of arch. OTOH if we change it, we break backwards compatibility on BE archs.

magnum

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