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Fast Password Cracker: John The Ripper for Unix Systems
Jan 07, 2005
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Anthony Pell
1 min read
Topics Covered
password cracker
open source
authentication
Unix
password security
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords.
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