2007-06-30 18:47:13 +00:00
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John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many
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2012-01-08 11:16:08 +00:00
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flavors of Unix (eleven are officially supported, not counting different
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2007-06-30 18:47:13 +00:00
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architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to
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detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types
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most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are
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Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with
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2011-10-11 14:52:07 +00:00
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contributed patches (over 40 of additional hash and cipher types).
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2002-09-16 21:40:35 +00:00
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WWW: http://www.openwall.com/john/
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