openwall / openwall/john

Tokenizer enhancements

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enhancement RFC / discussion
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Description

This is to keep track of issues with and enhancement ideas for the tokenizer (currently tokenize.pl) and its uses.

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading tokenize.pl and tracing its current uses in the repository. This issue is only a tracker for unspecified tokenizer problems and enhancement ideas, so a concrete scope and acceptance criteria must be established before work can be considered done.

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Assessment

Tech stack
perl
Domain
security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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