[TOOL] John The Ripper MPI Patch

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  John The Ripper MPI Patch
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SUMMARY



DETAILS

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many 
flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different 
architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to 
detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types 
most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are 
Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with 
contributed patches.

This is an updated version of Ryan Lim's patch for john the ripper to 
support MPI, in addition to a large number of third party patches to 
support additional ciphers and such.

MPI allows you to use multiple processors on a single system, or a cluster 
of systems for cracking passwords using john the ripper. Incredibly 
usefull in these days of multi core processors.

A compatible MPI implementation is required.
This has currently been tested on Linux/AMD64 and Linux/x86 using 
mpich2-1.0.2

Note: make generic seems faster on AMD64 than the actual amd64 make 
target, especially if your using gcc 3.4.

To download the patch:  
<http://www.bindshell.net/tools/johntheripper/john-1.7.0.1-mpi-bp17.patch.gz> http://www.bindshell.net/tools/johntheripper/john-1.7.0.1-mpi-bp17.patch.gz


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by  <mailto:[email protected]> John Anderson.
To keep updated with the tool visit the project's homepage at:  
<http://www.bindshell.net/tools/johntheripper> 
http://www.bindshell.net/tools/johntheripper



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