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authorMurat D. Kadirov <banderols@gmail.com>2010-05-13 00:40:44 +0200
committerDavid Somero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>2010-05-13 00:40:44 +0200
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-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.
+John the Ripper is a fast password cracker. Its primary purpose is to detect
+weak 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.
-SlackBuild contain updated version of Ryan Lim's patch for john the
-ripper to support MPI. MPI allows you to use multiple processors on a
-single system, or a cluster of systems for cracking passwords using
-john the ripper. You need in this case OpenMPI, also available from
-the SlackBuilds.org repository. But the author of the program does not
-recommend use any hacks for parallel processing (see in the bottom of page
-http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2005/08/24/4). Use it at own risk!
+This script includes an option to apply Ryan Lim's patch for JTR to support
+MPI. MPI allows you to use multiple processors on a system or even a cluster
+of systems for cracking passwords using JTR. If you decide to apply this, you
+will also need openmpi installed. JTR's author does not recommend using the
+patch, so use it at your own risk - for more information, see this link:
+ http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2005/08/24/4
+This script also contains an optional "jumbo" patch, which enables processing
+of many password hash types and ciphers that are not otherwise supported.
-Slackbuild contain also jambo patch. The jumbo patch enables processing
-of many password hash types and ciphers that are not supported by the
-official JtR. Both patches are disabled by default.
-
-Note this will not build in parallel, set MAKEFLAGS="-j1" if you have
-problems. \ No newline at end of file
+Note this will not build in parallel; unset MAKEFLAGS if you have problems.