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As reported in #5028 and https://huntr.dev/bounties/315d2d54-6ae4-47a1-a6ff-84fea6cb7d01/ by @michaellrowley with assistance of @JamieSlome and @huntr-helper (how many engineers does it take to get a one-liner fix in, and how ridiculous can a bug disclosure process become):

NULL Pointer Dereference in openwall/john
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Reported on

Jan 28th 2022
Description

John The Ripper

This is a follow-up to v2.0 #65 to switch the default parsing on supported systems so we support BigInt strings transparently.

Currently the Heap tests in ./Tests/PriorityQueueTests/HeapTests.swift are relying on @testable import to access internal interfaces. Unfortantely this doesn't work in release mode, so we can only run heap tests in debug builds.

We ought to be able to run these correctness tests with optimizatio

Description

A function to pad a string with zeros or another symbol to a given width could be helpful in many cases, especially together with the to_string() function for integer to string conversion.

Currently available methods to achieve this are using concatenation

width = 32
str = "hello"
padded_str = repeat('0',width-len(str)')//str

and perhaps also internal file I/O