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Message-ID: <56654C0B.5030405@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 10:06:19 +0100
From: Albert Veli <albert.veli@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Origin of the .pot file extension
Sorry, I missed the mail with the correct answer, by magnum. An
inheritance from cracker jack's jack.pot.
On 2015-12-07 00:26, magnum wrote:
>
> "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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