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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:41:00 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: plaintext truncation

On 2015-09-01 18:31, Rich Rumble wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:23 PM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is now implemented (3701702). The following formats got FMT_TRUNC as
>> of now: DEScrypt, bcrypt, LM, tripcode, nethalflm, netlm, PST, RACF, sapb
>> and VNC.
>>
>> Some more may need it but these should be the most important ones.
>>
> Old-office has a 15 char limit IIRC.

That rings a bell... but IIRC this only applies to some specific 
version(s), not all the ones supported by our oldoffice format. Perhaps 
it applies to '$oldoffice$0'?

> That does not apply to Outlook however, it uses CRC-32 codes and I
> don't think length matters there.

Apparently it truncates at 8, so it's got FMT_TRUNC already. I think it 
can find a working (although not neccessarily the original) password in 
30 seconds on average, using just one core of my laptop :-)

magnum

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