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John the Ripper version 1.7.9 released, Fast Password Cracking software

John the Ripper is one of famous and fastest Password Cracking software, developed by openwall. Currently it supports the Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS platforms. They released updated version of John the Ripper.

Most importantly, functionality of the -omp-des* patches has been reimplemented in the main source code tree, improving upon the best properties of the -omp-des-4 and -omp-des-7 patches at once. Thus, there are no longer any -omp-des* patches for 1.7.9.

Changelog for v1.7.9
  • Added optional parallelization of the MD5-based crypt(3) code with OpenMP.
  • Added optional parallelization of the bitslice DES code with OpenMP.
  • Replaced the bitslice DES key setup algorithm with a faster one, which significantly improves performance at LM hashes, as well as at DES-based crypt(3) hashes when there’s just one salt (or very few salts).
  • Optimized the DES S-box x86-64 (16-register SSE2) assembly code.
  • Added support for 10-character DES-based tripcodes (not optimized yet).
  • Added support for the “$2y$” prefix of bcrypt hashes.
  • Added two more hash table sizes (16M and 128M entries) for faster processing of very large numbers of hashes per salt (over 1M).
  • Added two pre-defined external mode variables: “abort” and “status”, which let an external mode request the current cracking session to be aborted or the status line to be displayed, respectively.
  • Made some minor optimizations to external mode function calls and virtual machine implementation of John the Ripper.
  • The “–make-charset” option now uses floating-point rather than 64-bit integer operations, which allows for larger CHARSET_settings in params.h.
  • Added runtime detection of Intel AVX and AMD XOP instruction set extensions, with optional fallback to an alternate program binary.
  • In OpenMP-enabled builds, added support for fallback to a non-OpenMP build when the requested thread count is 1.
  • Added relbench, a Perl script to compare two “john –test” benchmark runs, such as for different machines, “make” targets, C compilers, optimization options, or/and versions of John the Ripper.
  • Additional public lists of “top N passwords” have been merged into the bundled common passwords list, and some insufficiently common passwords were removed from the list.
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