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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 20:14:16 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: program to identify hashes in a text file

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:51:42AM +0200, Johny Krekan wrote:
> Hello I would like to ask whether John could identify hash type when I 
> will not know what type of hash it could be.

Yes, for hash types and encodings that it supports, if you run it on a
text file with no options, it will tell you which hash types might be
there and suggest the "--format" options to use to choose one of those.

Other than that, it has no further functionality to identify hash types.

> the text looks like this:

These are base64 encodings of some data.  They don't look like password
hashes to me.

Alexander

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