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