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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:43:33 +0100
From: "Frank Dittrich" <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: roadmap
Solar Designer wrote:
>On renaming the "single crack" mode:
[...]
>It would be more correct to say that this is about "personally
>identifiable information". This is a bit too restrictive, too, but in
>the absence of better suggestions it could be good enough. Now, would
>"PII mode" and --pii sound good?.. Alternatively, should the option
>be --personal?
What about --individual, or just --ind
But I don't mind --single, either
(Isn't the functionality a feature provides more important than
the name?)
Just picking up this thread for further suggestions:
I think the "fast dummy" algorithm, which just uses hash=password,
is useful for some john users.
(Although, you might have to take special care of passwords
containing colons.)
Then, I'd like to have a new external mode function, in addition to
generate() and filter().
I'd like to be able to get the password candidates, and generate
an arbitrary number (0-N) of new password candidates based on
the input.
Last time I checked the documentation, EXTERNAL contained:
|The following functions are currently used by John:
|
|init() called at startup, should initialize global variables
|filter() called for each word to be tried, can filter some words out
|generate() called to generate words, when no other cracking modes used
|restore() called when restoring an interrupted session
I'd like to use generate(), filter(), a combination of both,
or a new function to
-either: generate a new password based on the password
provided by john
-or: indicate that I don't want to generate more passwords based
on the last password provided by john's cracking mode
If you don't think this would be a useful feature, I could
explain the benefits I expect.
(A workaround is to use an external script which generates the
password candidates based on password lists or john --stdout.)
Frank
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