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Update docs/limits.txt regarding UTF16 support in kernels

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Jens Steube 2021-06-15 11:53:06 +02:00
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@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ It only means the filename itself.
## Hashing algorithms that internally use UTF-16 characters could in special cases lead to false negatives
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For optimized kernels only (-O): Since hashcat v6.2.1 there's true UTF16 support for pure kernels:
The UTF-16 conversion implementation used within the kernel code is very elementary and for performance
reasons does not respect all complicated encoding rules required to correctly convert, for instance, ASCII
or UTF-8 to UTF-16LE (or UTF-16BE).
@ -33,6 +35,8 @@ or UTF-8 to UTF-16LE (or UTF-16BE).
The implementation most likely fails with multi-byte characters, because we basically add a zero byte every
second byte within the kernel conversion code.
Since hashcat v6.2.1 there's true UTF16 support for pure kernels.
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## The use of --keep-guessing eventually skips reporting duplicate passwords
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