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Message-ID: <20060403225316.GD2779@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 02:53:16 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: John-the-ripper run on Trusted HP-UX
I wrote, commenting on the output of a cracking session against a HP-UX
password file:
> > This is correct. This output means that John has successfully cracked
> > the endings of those passwords (characters past 8). For example,
> > h0058's password is 9 characters long and ends in a dollar sign. The
> > ":2" after usernames means "second part of the password".
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:08:33PM -0700, Greg Barry wrote:
> Am I correct to assume that john has run against the first 8 chars
> of the passwd as well as the characters past 8
Yes.
John runs against all of the loaded password hashes - and against both
halves of split ones (whenever applicable) - in parallel.
The reason only second halves got cracked in your case is that they're
shorter and thus easier to crack.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
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