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Old 07-25-2006
ahmedwaseem2000 ahmedwaseem2000 is offline
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need help. when i tried running the sworfish from the same folder that it is residing i could get the passwords working perfectly fine. However, when i tried running it from a different path by giving the absolute path i get the below mentioned warning message. i also tried running it through the shell scripts i tried a cd to the folder and then launched using the command ./swordfish.txt some times this works and some times it fails can some one help me understand why is it failing some times?

Quote:
../utl/swordfish.txt
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* *
* Warning: Entropy is zero! *
* *
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generating weak entropy...
scribe[108]: linecount=linecount+1: bad number
Starts = 1
Period = 9,194,221,792,649,674,751
Total Calls = 0

Carry = 0
X0 = 1099
X1 = 8139
X2 = 26893
X3 = 23965
Entropy = BC928C58A6531E5E95BCB2ECE62EFD56F1D74717
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