The john team seems to be a little slow on releasing the jumbo patches for the latest (1.8.0). Would it be more useful to take a snapshot of the "bleeding-jumbo" git repo? It seems to have progressed significantly from 1.7.9 jumbo.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > We already have John the Ripper in security/john but it's the standard > version which only supports a limited range of hashes. I'd like to add a > separate port with the "jumbo" patchset applied that includes many > additional hashes, support for ZIP/RAR archives, OpenSSH private keys, > PDF files, etc. > > security/john should stay in parallel, as it does enough for many use > cases, and it takes a while before the patched version catches up with new > releases. > > Tested on i386/amd64/powerpc. Works fine on i386/amd64. Most things > work on powerpc, segfaults in some tests but still enough to be useful. > > Any comments? OK to import? > > >
