Most useful and currently relevant excerpts from john-users mailing list

• Perl scripts to generate sample hashes (all supported Unix crypt(3), LM, NTLM) and files for testing of JtR (2008/06/18)
• What directories JtR searches for its configuration and data files; JtR "home directory"; system-wide installs (2008/06/16)
• Buying a new computer to run JtR on - what to choose, what performance to expect? (2008/06/08)
• Combining "incremental" mode with external filter() to crack a partially-known password (2008/05/20)
• How to build (compile) JtR on Solaris, or download it pre-built (2008/04/24)
• Parallel processing, distributed processing (2008/04/08)
• KnownForce external mode - exhaustive search for a partially-known password (2008/03/31)
• What JtR is and what it is not; password recovery (2008/03/20)
• DumbForce external mode variations for 8-bit characters (2008/03/17)
• How to make "incremental" mode try 8-bit characters (2008/03/17)
• Case-insensitive hashes, rules & charsets (2008/02/24)
• DumbForce external mode - dumb exhaustive search, given a range of lengths and an arbitrary charset (2008/02/24)
• UltraSPARC T1 and T2 (2008/01/29)
• NTLM hashes support not getting in - why not? (2008/01/27)
• Trivial external mode for exhaustive search over tiny custom charset and fixed length, less generic than DumbForce (2008/01/26)
• How to deal with different (multiple) hash types ("formats"); the need for "unshadow" and "--show" (2008/01/21)
• Cracking a 12 character long password (slow hash) (2007/11/11)
• CPUShare port of JtR MD5-based crypt(3) code (2007/09/18)
  • CPUShare port - additions (2007/11/12)
• How to make "incremental" mode work for lengths beyond 8 (2007/07/04)
• "Idle" setting: system responsiveness and performance (2007/06/05)
• Processing wordlists from the Openwall collection (2007/06/05)
• How to apply a contributed patch to JtR 1.7.2 (2007/04/07)
• Contributed patches not getting in - why not? (2007/03/19)
• Administrivia - list charter - what topics are desirable on john-users (2007/02/17)
• How to instantly crack NTLM hashes (case-sensitive) given cracked LM ones (2006/07/08)
• Comments on possibly adding parallel processing support with OpenMP (2006/05/23)
• Cracking Cisco IOS "type 5" passwords (2006/05/14)
• Support for 8-bit characters (e.g., for languages other than English) (2006/02/16)
• Some estimates (math) on dumb exhaustive searches (2006/02/07)
• JtR internals - optimizations related to key setup and salt setup "overhead" (2006/01/19)
• Cracking application (non-OS) passwords (2006/01/09)
• Remote password cracking (2006/01/09)
  • Remote password cracking - addition (2006/01/13)
• What salts are (2005/12/18)
• SAP R/3 password security (CODVN A, B, D) - initial posting (2005/12/11)
  • SAP R/3 password security - more detail (2005/12/13)
• Script to extract password hashes from a CommuniGate Pro messaging server for use with JtR (2005/11/22)
• JtR internals - hashes might be never fully computed/encoded (2005/11/11)
• Comments on special-purpose crypto accelerator chips/cards (2005/10/13)
• Understanding benchmark results - c/s rate vs. Mbps of underlying cipher (2005/09/18)
• Trivial parallel processing (4 CPUs or CPU cores) (2005/08/24)
  • Trivial parallel processing - also for wordlist mode (2005/08/26)
• Password policy enforcement (2005/08/15)
• Understanding different hash types in use on Unix-like systems (2005/07/02)

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