wok annotate john/description.txt @ rev 12044

john: added dumb??.conf and generic.conf to support default operation
author Samuel Trassare <samuel_trassare@yahoo.com>
date Wed Mar 07 10:16:22 2012 -0800 (2012-03-07)
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samuel_trassare@12044 1 John the Ripper is a fast password cracker. Its primary purpose is to detect
samuel_trassare@12044 2 weak passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found
samuel_trassare@12044 3 on various systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of
samuel_trassare@12044 4 other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.