MD5 and the Diminishing Passwords Rule

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I have made this odd rule I like to use now and then…

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I call it the diminishing password rule. I am sure it doesn’t need any explanation.

The odd thing with it is that it works ok when testing .hccaps but not when testing MD5. When I use this rule against MD5 I get the following error.

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ERROR: ERROR: clGetPlatformIDs() -1001

I could imagine it not working against .hccap as they have to be over 8 characters but it does work and obviously I get a lot of rejections but it runs successfully. But I am surprised that this should get stuck against MD5 whose password length could be down to 1.

Is this a bug or is it something I have done wrong ?

Thanks.