I just spent at least 15 minutes trying to figure out why every single post on the Internet tells me to place MD5 hash in a file and call John like this
Cracking raw MD5 hashes with John the Ripper. And of course I have extended version of John the Ripper that support raw-md5 format. Installation (9) linux (60. John is a state of the art offline password cracking tool. John was better known as John The Ripper (JTR) combines many forms of password crackers into one single tool. It automatically detects the type of password & tries to crack them with either bruteforceing the encrypted hash.
john --format=raw-md5 --wordlist=/usr/share/dict/words md5.txtand yet, it constantly gives me an error message:
Cracking raw MD5 hashes with John the Ripper. And of course I have extended version of John the Ripper that support raw-md5 format. Installation (9) linux (60. John is a state of the art offline password cracking tool. John was better known as John The Ripper (JTR) combines many forms of password crackers into one single tool. It automatically detects the type of password & tries to crack them with either bruteforceing the encrypted hash.
john --format=raw-md5 --wordlist=/usr/share/dict/words md5.txtand yet, it constantly gives me an error message:
No password hashes loaded (see FAQ)The content of md5.txt was:
20E11C279CE49BCC51EDC8041B8FAAAAI even tried prepending dummy user before this hash, like this:
dummyuser: 20E11C279CE49BCC51EDC8041B8FAAAAbut without any luck.
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And of course I have extended version of John the Ripper that support raw-md5 format.
It turned out that John doesn't support capital letters in hash value! They have to be written in small letters like this:
20e11c279ce49bcc51edc8041b8fbbb6after that change, everything worked like a charm.
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What a stupid error!?