John the Ripper advanced usage examples and compile-time hacks

First of all, you ought to have a look at the examples included in the official documentation for JtR. This wiki page is for additional usage examples, hopefully more advanced ones.

• How to instantly crack NTLM hashes (case-sensitive) given cracked LM ones (2006/07/08)

There should probably exist a maintained wiki page based on the above mailing list posting. The list posting reference should then be removed.

• How to make "incremental" mode try 8-bit characters (2008/03/17)
• How to make "incremental" mode work for lengths beyond 8 (2007/07/04)

There should probably exist a maintained wiki page on adjusting params.h settings for “incremental” mode to exceed its default limitations.

• More year-based password cracking rules (2009/03/27)
• New john.conf rules (Part 2) (2009/04/24)
• Generation method and generated prepend and append rules JimF (2009/07/27)

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