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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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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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