Package: crunch Version: 3.6-2 Severity: normal Tags: newcomer Dear Maintainer, crunch has a bug during creation of dictonaries sizes of great dimension. To let you better understand:
crunch 14 14 -f /usr/share/crunch/charset.lst hex-lower Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 1080863910568919040 bytes 1030792151040 MB 1006632960 GB 983040 TB 960 PB Crunch will now generate the following number of lines: 72057594037927936 crunch 15 15 -f /usr/share/crunch/charset.lst hex-lower Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 0 bytes 0 MB 0 GB 0 TB 0 PB Crunch will now generate the following number of lines: 1152921504606846976 crunch 16 16 -f /usr/share/crunch/charset.lst hex-lower Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 0 bytes 0 MB 0 GB 0 TB 0 PB Crunch will now generate the following number of lines: 0 As you can see, when it creates large 'monolitic' dictionaries, it fails. That's if I set -c option: crunch 16 16 -c 60 -f /usr/share/crunch/charset.lst hex-lower Crunch will now generate the following amount of data: 1020 bytes 0 MB 0 GB 0 TB 0 PB Crunch will now generate the following number of lines: 60 That's all I retrieved ;) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages crunch depends on: ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4 crunch recommends no packages. Versions of packages crunch suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b3 ii p7zip-full 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2 ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 -- no debconf information
