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> Every self-respecting pentester should have a powerful password cracker in their toolkit, and John the Ripper is simply the best cracker out there. I was und
by AlexSW 5y ago
> Every self-respecting pentester should have a powerful password cracker in their toolkit, and John the Ripper is simply the best cracker out there.
I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that hashcat gave JtR a good run for its money, or even firmly surpassed it, particularly when GPUs are available (which one would have available for any serious password cracking attempts)?
- snypher 5y agoThere's a good but slightly hard to read comparison between them here: http://www.adeptus-mechanicus.com/codex/jtrhcmkv/jtrhcmkv.php http://www.adeptus-mechanicus.com/codex/jtrhcmkv/jtrhcmkv.ph...
- LinuxBender 5y agoAnd some addition discussion [1] [1] - https://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2020/05/26/1 https://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2020/05/26/1