john-users team [Openwall Community Wiki]

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Team “john-users” participates in hash cracking contests.

CMIYC: Crack Me If You Can contest by KoreLogic as a part of DEFCON conference (as a part of DerbyCon conference in 2017)

Hash Runner: by Positive Technologies as a part of PHDays conference in 2012-2015.

PCrack: by BashNinja @miketweaver as a part of SaintCon conference.

Also hashkiller.co.uk forum hosted their own contest several times. But we skipped it.

Contest	Year	Our place	Our write-up / comment
CMIYC	2010	4	http://openwall.com/lists/john-users/2010/08/12/11
CMIYC	2011	3	http://openwall.com/lists/john-users/2011/08/18/10
Hash Runner	2012	4	no write-up for this contest
CMIYC	2012	2	http://openwall.com/lists/john-users/2012/08/14/1
Hash Runner	2013	1	http://openwall.com/lists/john-users/2013/07/06/1
CMIYC	2013	3	http://openwall.com/lists/john-users/2014/08/07/1
Hash Runner	2014	3	http://openwall.com/lists/john-users/2014/05/29/2
CMIYC	2014	4	no write-up for this contest
Hash Runner	2015	2	http://openwall.com/lists/john-users/2015/05/24/4
CMIYC	2015	4	no write-up for this contest yet
CMIYC	2017	3	TBD
PCrack	2017	3*	#3 among online-only teams; write-up by orgs

You have some basic skills: file copying over ssh, basic usage of john, irc, mailing (it is ok to learn it on your own before or during the contest),

You'd like to use John the Ripper or other FOSS tool for hash cracking; you don't want to use non-free software for hash cracking including freeware, shareware, closed-source and so on.

You are a subscriber of john-users mailing list, or you were invited by a member.

The team uses a server to collaborate during the contest. So every member needs an user account there.

So if you would like to participate, send a private mail to Aleksey Cherepanov[1] with the following info:

who invited you, or how long you are on john-users mailing list, (or give a reason to trust you ),

[1] Aleksey Cherepanov: lyosha ,at, openwall.com