The Pro version, designed for use by professional pen testers, has additional features such as bigger, multilingual wordlists, performance optimizations and 64-bit architecture support. An enhanced “jumbo” community release has also been made available on the open-source GitHub repo.
The tool comes in both GNU-licensed and proprietary (Pro) versions. It was designed to test password strength, brute-force encrypted (hashed) passwords, and crack passwords via dictionary attacks. John the Ripper definitionįirst released in 1996, John the Ripper (JtR) is a password cracking tool originally produced for UNIX-based systems. One of the oldest password cracking and testing tools, John the Ripper is still an essential pen testing tool.
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