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Saturday, March 20, 2010

John The Ripper 1.7.3.4

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker,
currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, and BeOS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords, but a number of other hash types are supported as well.

Updates:
"make check" has been implemented (for Unix-like systems only), primarily for use by packages of JtR. The "--test" option will now take an optional argument - the duration of each benchmark in seconds. The section .note.GNU-stack has been added to all assembly files to avoid the stack area unnecessarily being made executable on Linux systems that use this mechanism. Some very minor bugs that did not affect normal operation have been fixed.




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