John the Ripper v1.8.0 released - fast password cracker

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.

Download one of the latest official free versions (release notes):

John the Ripper 1.8.0 (Unix - sources, tar.gz, 5.2 MB) and its signature
John the Ripper 1.8.0 (Unix - sources, tar.xz, 4.3 MB) and its signature
John the Ripper 1.8.x extra charset files archive (tar.xz, 4.5 MB) and its signature
John the Ripper 1.7.9 (Windows - binaries, ZIP, 2029 KB) and its signature

Changelog v1.8.0 

• Revised the incremental mode to let the current character counts grow for each
• character position independently, with the aim to improve efficiency in terms of
• successful guesses per candidate passwords tested.
• Revised the pre-defined incremental modes, as well as external mode filters that are
• used to generate .chr files.
• Added makechr, a script to (re-)generate .chr files.
• Enhanced the status reporting to include four distinct speed metrics (g/s, p/s, c/s, and
• C/s).
• Added the "--fork=N" and "--node=MIN[-MAX]/TOTAL" options for trivial parallel and
• distributed processing.
• In the external mode compiler, treat character literals as unsigned.
• Renamed many of the formats.
• Updated the documentation.
• Relaxed the license for many source files to cut-down BSD.
• Relaxed the license for John the Ripper as a whole from GPLv2 (exact version) to
• GPLv2 or newer with optional OpenSSL and unRAR exceptions.
• Assorted other changes have been made.

Download older versions & more info 

Source-

http://www.openwall.com/john/

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