Re: Sha-512 passwords support in Owl

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 06:26:43PM -0400, Robert Harris wrote:
> I guess Sha512 passwords hash type (type $6$) is not supported in Owl.

That's correct.

> I'd like to request support for this.  Is there someplace to request
> features for Owl?

This mailing list is fine for that purpose. :-)

> Rob-Owl1!rharris:/rob/john/run$ ./john system1

We're not going to spend time back-porting SHA-crypt support into the
version of glibc that we currently have in Owl.  So our upcoming release
will lack SHA-crypt support.  Owl-current will gain this support
post-release when we update glibc.

However, John the Ripper will also independently get built-in SHA-crypt
support at some point, which is not in any way related to Owl releases.

Thanks,

Alexander