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)

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

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

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

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