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Message-ID: <20060530185952.GA31623@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 22:59:52 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: announce@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: John the Ripper Pro; popa3d 1.0.2; crypt_blowfish 1.0.2
Hi,
This is to announce three things at once:
1. I have started making and maintaining commercial releases of John the
Ripper password cracker, known as John the Ripper Pro.
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker (password security auditing
tool if you prefer), currently available for many flavors of Unix,
Windows, and other platforms. Its primary purpose is to detect weak
Unix passwords, although Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes and a number
of other password hash types are supported as well. John the Ripper is
free software, distributed primarily in source code form.
John the Ripper Pro builds upon the free John the Ripper to deliver a
commercial product better tailored for specific operating systems. It
is distributed primarily in the form of "native" packages for the target
operating systems and in general is meant to be easier to install and
use while delivering optimal performance. The John the Ripper Pro
homepage is:
http://www.openwall.com/john/pro/
John the Ripper Pro is currently available for Linux on x86 processors,
with support for the latest Intel and AMD processor features such as
SSE2. Support for certain other operating systems and processor
architectures is planned (please submit requests as specified on the web
page above).
The features currently specific to Pro versions are:
- Pre-built and well-tested native package (RPM) which may be installed
with a single command - no need to compile.
- Automatic detection of processor architecture extensions such as SSE2
and MMX for much faster processing, with transparent fallback on older CPUs.
- A large multilingual wordlist optimized specifically for use with
John the Ripper (4,106,923 entries, 43 MB uncompressed) is included in
the package, and John the Ripper is pre-configured for its use.
- The included documentation is revised to be specific for the given
package and OS rather than generic, making it easier to understand.
- As a bonus, the full source code sufficient to rebuild the package is
also provided (can be downloaded separately).
The following Linux distributions are supported:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (any version) for x86 and x86-64;
- Fedora Core (any version) for x86 and x86-64;
- Red Hat Linux 7.0 and above;
- SUSE Linux 7.1 and above for x86 and x86-64;
- Mandriva Linux (any version) for x86 and x86-64;
- Openwall GNU/*/Linux 1.1 and above;
- Slackware 8.1 and above;
- any other distribution with RPM 3+, glibc 2.1+, Linux kernel 2.4.0+
that is capable of running executables for x86 (i386).
I know that some current users of John the Ripper may be concerned that
the introduction of a commercial version might have a negative impact on
the development of the free John the Ripper. Let me assure you that
there will be no such negative impact. On the contrary, if John the
Ripper Pro is successful commercially, that will only help the free John
the Ripper to evolve faster - while remaining free.
If you're a current user of John the Ripper and you can influence your
company or organization to purchase John the Ripper Pro, you're welcome
to support the development of John the Ripper in this way - to benefit
the users of the free version as well.
2. A new version of the tiny POP3 server, popa3d 1.0.2, has been
released adding a couple of minor optimizations specific to x86-64 to
the included MD5 routines. The homepage for popa3d is:
http://www.openwall.com/popa3d/
3. A new version of the password hashing package (for use in C/C++
applications and libraries), crypt_blowfish 1.0.2, has been released
adding a minor optimization specific to x86-64. The homepage for
crypt_blowfish is:
http://www.openwall.com/crypt/
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
GPG key ID: B35D3598 fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929 6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments
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