Service

John the Ripper Password Cracker

Readiness Level
Intermediate

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Description

This offering is a password security auditing and password recovery tool available for many operating systems. John the Ripper jumbo supports hundreds of hash and cipher types, including for: user passwords of Unix flavors, macOS, Windows, groupware, and database servers; network traffic captures; encrypted private keys, filesystems and disks, archives, and document files.

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