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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:17:17 -0600
From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: any plans to support superlong passwords?
On 31 July 2012 08:30, Aleksey Cherepanov <aleksey.4erepanov@...il.com> wrote:
> It seems that some hash types accept passwords longer than john
> support. I wonder why there is highly optimized code with limits but
> there no code without limits on length?
>
> Are there any plans to support password lengths up to hash type's
> maximum?
What hashes are you talking about? You can get a lot of unlimited
length hashes via say the --format=crypt which falls back to OS level
algorithms which are slow but have unlimited lengths. (I do this for
md5crypt that are longer than 15 characters and similar items).
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Regards,
> Aleksey Cherepanov
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
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Linus Torvalds
"Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh
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recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd
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