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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:31:20 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [GSoC] John the Ripper support for PHC finalists

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:24:45AM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 01:56:03AM +0200, Agnieszka Bielec wrote:
> > //check the size of password, salt and output. Password is at most
> > //256 bytes; the salt is at most 32 bytes.
> >     if (inlen > 256 || saltlen > 64 || outlen > 256 || inlen < 0 ||
> >         saltlen < 0 || outlen < 0)
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure how I should set SALT_SIZE ?  I ought to set it with
> > 32 or 64 ?
> 
> magnum already answered what this means for JtR - just set SALT_SIZE to
> the maximum supported salt length.  However, there might be a bug in
> POMELO's reference code here.  Did this inconsistent commend and code
> come from there ("at most 32 bytes" vs. "saltlen > 64")?  If so, we
> should report it on the PHC discussions list.  Can you join that list
> and post in there, please?

I just made this PHC discussions list posting myself:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.phc/2605

Alexander

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