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| author | Christopher Rogers <slaxemulator@gmail.com> |
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| date | Mon Jul 30 04:26:01 2012 +0000 (2012-07-30) |
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1 John the Ripper is a fast password cracker. Its primary purpose is to detect
2 weak passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found
3 on various systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of
4 other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.