John the Ripper

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix pas...

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John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, 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 systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.

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Password RecoveryJohn the Ripper can help you recover your passwords for software applications and hardware devices.

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Developed byOpenwall
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
Written in
C
Alternatives15 alternatives listed

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