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librexgen no longer does case.
https://github.com/teeshop/rexgen/commit/9468680a1d86e25f6e08d98fbcd32980c2ec6d8b
We still have this in code (within our command line arg), but the flag that gets set never is used any more (after Jan's update last december: https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/commit/f3cd0e6393278eba7e8456666c1b27a8df8e4938#commitcomment-16945258)
We need to find out if there are plans to ever bring that function back, and if not, then remove this option from the regex interface.
Note, the =alpha:case does work (after I renamed case to cased).
Is this still an issue? Or was it re-implemented by eg. https://github.com/teeshop/rexgen/commit/9e4e557 ?
No, this is still an issue. casing 'can' be done, but it is not done with a simple function call like before. I think you have to incorporate it into the regex expression, but that makes for some differences in runtime.
Note, the =alpha:cased does work
How? The below doesn't.
$ ../run/john --stdout -regex='alpha:cased=\0' -stdin <<< magnum
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
magnum
1p 0:00:00:00 0.00% 100.0p/s magnum
Am I doing it wrong? I'm probably confused.
doc/README.librexgen is full of typos and incorrect (as of now) info. It should be updated.
For example, apparently you need to write -regex='alpha:cased=[regex] whereas the manual says -regex='alpha=cased=[regex]. You can say -regex:'alpha:cased=[regex] but the second one must be a : and the third one must be a =. Not sure if we should change the docs or the code.
Typos are things like "rexex" and "stand along"
We don't even know whether we'll keep this functionality longer-term, so we certainly don't intend to spend time on it before our upcoming release.
Should we perhaps remove all mentions of case from doc/README.librexgen and then close this issue?