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Message-ID: <3920afe954cb6d291bcad7658893908a@smtp.hushmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 00:26:54 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Origin of the .pot file extension
On 2015-12-06 23:09, Matt Weir wrote:
> This is a bit off topic, but I was wondering if there was any story
> surrounding choosing '.pot' as the file extension for JtR's cracked
> password file? I assume the 'P' stands for password but I'm stumped when it
> comes to the 'ot'.
In http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2015/09/10/4 Solar said:
"John the Ripper 1.0 was released in 1996 as a drop-in replacement for
Cracker Jack under DOS. It was built with DJGPP, requiring 386+ and
optimized for the original Pentium and to a lesser extent for 486.
(Initially, I called it Cracker John, but a friend suggested the name
John the Ripper.) This also explains the john.pot filename - obviously,
it was jack.pot in Cracker Jack."
magnum
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