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Message-ID: <8e124f160602011313o46a4e183h3d00c2abba834d5c@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:13:47 -0800
From: Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: bob the butcher distributed password cracker
On 12/22/05, Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As some people would like to see a distributed password cracker, i post
> here a link to this tool i wrote to just do that (and more).
>
> You can download it there:
> http://www.banquise.net/misc/bob-the-butcher.html
>
> The name is a reference to john, because i ripped the format files and
> ciphers code.
>
> For now it quite sucks. It's buggy, and lacks the following features:
> * smart password generation algorithm. It just brutes forces all
> passwords from a to z. Currently a single computer running john is more
> likely to crack passwords than 10 computers running bob.
> * salts based mutualisation. The goal of this project is to provide a
> single platform to crack multiple passwords / hash files at the same
> time. A good optimization would be to aggregate all of them based on
> cipher types and salts.
>
> I hope this post is not (totally) off topic, and that some brave
> testers will iron it out. It only works on x86 mmx (linux / cygwin) for
> now and requires libevent. Moreover, if somebody understands why the
> ripped DES code doesn't work for x86 without mmx, that would be great.
>
> Final warning : this is ALPHA, I wrote it, and there is a network
> daemon. Only use it on a trusted network.
>
How is development progressing? It looks like its still actively
being developed from the current ChangeLog.
Do you have plans for a mailing-list and/or wiki, etc?
Thanks,
Dave
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