#495402 john: Specify minimum password length

Package:
john
Source:
john
Description:
active password cracking tool
Submitter:
Date:
2011-07-17 00:06:08 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#495402#5
Date:
2008-08-17 02:27:53 UTC
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To:
I've configured PAM to restrict password creation to 8 or more
characters. It would therefore be a good idea to add an option to
throw out passwords that are less than a given number of characters
since it's just a waste of time to try them.

For example, let's say we had:

  Minlength = 8

If we were considering the word "fred" from the wordlist, we'd ignore
"fred", but would accept the mangled "fredfred".

Thanks!

p.s. I suppose for symmetry, we could have a Maxlength option too.