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Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 03:31:19 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Random passwords with modulo bias

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 08:44:36AM +1000, Michael Samuel wrote:
> I was wondering if JtR can be tuned to attack random passwords where
> the random password generator is known and has modulo bias?

Yes.  The easiest way is to train its incremental mode on a large set of
such passwords.

> I've been having trouble finding papers/talks on the subject, which
> surprised me.

I guess the issue is considered too simple by those who are aware of it,
and the rest would not write/talk about it because they're unaware of it.

Alexander

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