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
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Re: John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer 2006-03-01
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John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer 2006-03-01
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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 recommend it.)"

Does that mean I'm better off using a password with *uniform* distribution of characters -- e.g. mmmmmmmm or m_m_m_m_ ????

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