Password Cracker John The Ripper updated, Integrated GPU Support

The famous password cracker John The Ripper has just been updated to version 1.7.9 jumbo 7 featuring integrated GPU support using CUDA or OpenCL for a subset of hash and non-hash types. The new release supports a large number of additional hashes including Master Passwords for Mozilla based programs like Firefox or thunderbird, ODF files, KeePass 1.x files, WPA-PSK encryption, Office 2007 and 2010 password protected documents, and Rar -p mode encrypted archives. The full list of hashes and non-hashes that have been added to the program is available on this page

John The Ripper is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, the latest release currently only for Unix-based systems. Unofficial builds for Windows and Mac OS X are available that include several of the new features.

Benchmarks conducted by the team indicate performance gains for many operations when the gpu is utilized. There is however no definitive answer on how much faster the new version of John the Ripper is in comparison to previous versions, as it depends largely on the functions used.

For the rest, the maximum speedup is 6.13x for SSH, which is great

(considering that the CPU clock rate reduces with more threads running,
and that this is a 4-module CPU rather than a true 8-core).  Here are

77210 virtual   SSH RSA/DSA (one 2048-bit RSA
the top 10 OpenMP performers (excluding SIP):
Ratio:  6.13093 real, 0
. and one 1024-bit DSA key):Raw
Ratio:  6.05882 real, 0.75737 virtual   NTLMv2 C/R MD4 HMAC-MD5:Many salts

ual   GOST R 34.11-94:Raw
Ratio:  5.81605 real, 0.73986 virtual   sha256
Ratio:  6.04342 real, 0.75548 virtual   LMv2 C/R MD4 HMAC-MD5:Many salts
Ratio:  5.92830 real, 0.74108 vir
tcrypt (rounds=5000):Raw
Ratio:  5.65289 real, 0.70523 virtual   sha512crypt (rounds=5000):Raw
Ratio:  5.63333 real, 0.72034 virtual   Drupal 7 $S$ SHA-512 (x16385):Raw

l   Sybase ASE salted SHA-256:Many salts
Ratio:  5.56435 real, 0.69937 virtual   OpenBSD Blowfish (x32):Raw
Ratio:  5.50484 real, 0.69682 virtual   Password Safe SHA-256:Raw
Ratio:  5.49613 real, 0.68814 virtu

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New users find examples, wordlists and everything else that is needed to get started with John The Ripper on the official website.