04-28-2025, 03:46 PM
(04-27-2025, 11:34 PM)raummusik Wrote: Good point , also forgot a password from several 2.x archives initially generated 20 years ago - wondered about the extracted 16x0 salt .
another discussion of the same behaviour if someone else runs into this :
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6635.html
and there we go : https://github.com/openwall/john/issues/5271
Regards
ben
need to correct my previous assumption that my old .rar files having 2.x format, the contents inside are from 2005 when i already used newer winrar 3.x versions.