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Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 18:33:48 +0300
From: Aleksey Cherepanov <lyosha@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Generic parsing functions -- prototype

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:29:46AM +0300, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> - hex. Do we need variants for lower- and upper-case?

>From formats.h:
/* Splits a ciphertext into several pieces and returns the piece with given
 * index, starting from 0 (will usually return the ciphertext unchanged).
 * For hex-encoded hashes which are compared by the target system/application
 * irrespective of the case of characters (upper/lower/mixed) used in their
 * encoding, split() must unify the case (e.g., convert to all-lowercase)
 * and FMT_SPLIT_UNIFIES_CASE must be set. */
	char *(*split)(char *ciphertext, int index, struct fmt_main *self);

For example, raw-sha512 reads hex in any case and makes lower case in
split().

Flags in fmt_main of raw-sha512:
		FMT_CASE | FMT_8_BIT | FMT_OMP | FMT_SPLIT_UNIFIES_CASE,

Thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Aleksey Cherepanov

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