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Message-ID: <20060424033708.GA2075@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:37:08 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: announce@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Owl for x86-64; Owl 2.0-stable; FTP'able wordlists CD image; JtR 1.7.0.2; netlist 2.1
Hi,
This is one of those announcements for many things at once. I'll start
with the most recent and also, in my opinion, the most important one:
1. We've ported Openwall GNU/*/Linux (or Owl for short) to the x86-64
architecture (also known as AMD64 and Intel EM64T).
The latest Owl-current binary packages for x86-64 have been made
available under /pub/Owl/current/x86_64 on the FTP mirrors:
http://www.openwall.com/Owl/DOWNLOAD.shtml
Currently, these packages have to be installed off a system that is
already running an x86-64 build of the Linux kernel. This "installer
system" may use a 32-bit userland, though, as long as the kernel is
built for x86-64 with CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION enabled.
We're planning to create and make available a bootable CD image for
x86-64 a bit later.
I'd like to thank Dmitry V. Levin who did the port and the bulk of the
associated testing. I would also like to thank ALT Linux for letting
Dmitry use their servers, and DataForce ISP for providing our current
x86-64 build server.
2. The Owl 2.0-stable branch is now available under /pub/Owl/2.0-stable
on the FTP mirrors. The changes since Owl 2.0 so far include security
updates to tar and GnuPG, and the update of John the Ripper to version
1.7.0.2. The Owl 2.0-stable change log is available here:
http://www.openwall.com/Owl/CHANGES-2.0-stable.shtml
3. It is now possible to purchase a download of a compressed ISO image
of our wordlists collection CD instead of placing an order for the
physical CD. This may be preferable if you would like to gain access to
the entire CD content immediately or if it is inconvenient for you to
receive the CD by mail. The homepage for the wordlists collection is:
http://www.openwall.com/wordlists/
Please scroll down to the end of the above web page for paid and free
download options.
4. John the Ripper 1.7.0.2 has been released adding a fix for a
long-standing (pre-1.6) bug in the rule preprocessor which caused some
duplicate characters to not be omitted on 64-bit platforms, resulting in
some candidate passwords unintentionally being tried multiple times.
The John the Ripper homepage is:
http://www.openwall.com/john/
Since this change is irrelevant for 32-bit platforms, there are no
builds of 1.7.0.2 for Win32 and DOS (they would have been exactly the
same as those of 1.7.0.1).
5. The contributed netlist program listed on the Openwall Linux kernel
patch homepage has been updated to version 2.1, featuring support for
Linux 2.6.x kernels and better performance. netlist is a tool for users
to list their own active Internet connections and sockets, especially
when access to the /proc filesystem is restricted. The Openwall Linux
kernel patches and netlist can be found here:
http://www.openwall.com/linux/
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
GPG key ID: B35D3598 fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929 6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598
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