John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer

John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer
Federico Biancuzzi, 2006-02-22

Federico Biancuzzi interviews Solar Designer, creator of the popular John the Ripper password cracker. Solar Designer discusses what's new in version 1.7, the advantages of popular cryptographic hashes, the relative speed at which many passwords can now be cracked, and how one can choose strong passphrases (forget passwords) that are harder to break.

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John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer 2006-02-25
Anonymous (2 replies)

Is this Solar Designer his real name or an alias? What's the story behind it? Who he really is?...

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Re: John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer 2006-02-28
Anonymous

Solar Designer is a nickname.
Alexander Peslyak is his real name.
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Re: John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer 2006-03-01
Anonymous

Solar Designer is an alias. You can find Solar's real name (Alexander Peslyak), for example, in the Bugtraq announcement for John the Ripper 1.7, as well as at the end of the LICENSE file:

http://www.openwall.com/john/doc/LICENSE.shtml...

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John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer 2006-03-01
Steve Lodin

Wow, things sure have come a long way. When I wrote PalmCrack (www.noncon.org) it managed 25 c/s on the Motorola Dragonball processor. Alec Muffett says that in 1992 when working on Crack, replacing crypt() with fcrypt() yielded 25 crypts/sec on a Sun 3/60....

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John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer 2006-12-13
Anonymous (1 replies)

"(Some older papers on password security recommended picking the first letter of each word of a phrase to form short and easy to remember, yet unusual passwords. Unfortunately, this results in a highly non-uniform distribution of characters used - which John is able to take advantage of. So I do not...

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Re: John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer 2007-06-04
Anonymous

Yes, a uniform distribution provides better security, but it must be over a large enough character set. In your examples, what is the character set? Is it just one or two characters ("m" and "_")? If so, the distribution may be uniform, but the character set is too small - and that is the problem...

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John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer - Google Truths 2009-05-07
Abhinav Karnawat - Innovation Loves Constraints

Google Truths is the term used when a hacker tries to find exploitable targets and sensitive data by using search engines. It is the art of using Google's ability to find secrets of the web and even attain personal, revealing or illegal information.

Google offers many powerful features and advan...

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