Support reading gzipped wordlists (and perhaps other things)
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Description
Whenever we do a (much needed) overhaul of wordlist.c, we should consider adding support for reading files compressed with gzip/xz (perhaps others - bzip?) on the fly. Perhaps using dlopen rather than requiring anything at build time.
If we do it cleverly enough (perhaps squeeze it into fgetl() if possible?) we could even support compressed input hash files.
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Research direction
Start by reading wordlist.c and the fgetl() input path to understand how wordlists and hash files are read. Investigate whether optional gzip, xz, or bzip support through dlopen is feasible without build-time dependencies. Done would require a settled compression scope and working compressed-input support, but the issue does not define tests or a final design.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100