-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-0748 2010-01-19 18:56:16 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : john Product : Fedora 11 Version : 1.7.3.4 Release : 1.fc11 URL : http://www.openwall.com/john Summary : John the Ripper password cracker Description : John the Ripper is a fast password cracker. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords, but a number of other hash types are supported as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is an excerpt from the upstream changes file. Changes considered irrelevant for Fedora users have been removed. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.3.1 and 1.7.3.4: * The "--test" option will now take an optional argument - the duration of each benchmark in seconds. * Section .note .GNU-stack has been added to all assembly files to avoid the stack area unnecessarily being made executable on Linux systems that use this mechanism. * Some very minor bugs that did not affect normal operation have been fixed. been made more verbose and more complete. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.3 and 1.7.3.1: * Merged in some generic changes from JtR Pro. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.2 and 1.7.3: * Two Blowfish-based crypt(3) hashes may now be computed in parallel for much better performance on modern multi-issue CPUs with a sufficient number of registers (e.g., x86-64). * Bitslice DES assembly code for x86-64 has been converted to use instruction pointer relative addressing (needed for Mac OS X support). * New make targets: macosx-universal, macosx-x86-64, solaris-x86-64-cc, solaris-x86-64-gcc, solaris-x86-sse2-cc, solaris-x86-sse2-gcc, solaris-x86-mmx-cc, solaris-x86-mmx-gcc, solaris-x86-any- cc, linux-ia64; other changes to the Makefile. * Minor bug fixes. * "DumbForce" and "KnownForce" external mode samples have been added to the default john.conf. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.1 and 1.7.2: * Bitslice DES assembly code for x86-64 making use of the 64-bit mode extended SSE2 with 16 XMM registers has been added for better performance at DES-based crypt(3) hashes with x86-64 builds on AMD processors. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.0.2 and 1.7.1: * Bitslice DES code for x86 with SSE2 has been added for better performance at DES-based crypt(3) hashes on Pentium 4 and SSE2-capable AMD processors. * Assorted high- level changes have been applied to improve performance on current x86-64 processors. * Minor source code cleanups. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jan 18 2010 Till Maas <[email protected]> - 1.7.3.4-1 - Update to new release - fix Source0 - add missing -m parameters to install - set LDFLAGS to RPM_OPT_FLAGS for non mmx build - add signature as Source1 * Fri Jan 8 2010 Till Maas <[email protected]> - 1.7.0.2-9 - Use %global instead of %define * Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 1.7.0.2-8 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #525918 - Please update to version 1.7.3.4 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525918 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update john' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
