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Fast Password Cracker: John The Ripper for Unix Systems

Calendar Jan 07, 2005 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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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.