All releases of John the Ripper
Release Notes: -jumbo was rebased on 1.7.9. Support for RADIUS shared secrets and for SHA-0 was added. MSSQL (old and 2005), MySQL (SHA-1 based), and Lotus5 hashing were optimized. OpenMP parallelization was added for Lotus5. x86-64 builds now make use of SSE2 intrinsics for more hash and cipher types. More i-suffixed make targets were added (which use an icc-generated assembly file for SSE2 intrinsics), including for 32-bit x86 builds. An MD4 implementation in assembly for x86/SSE2 and MMX was added. An alternate implementation of NTLM hashing was added (--format=nt2). A binary build for Windows was made.
Release Notes: OpenMP parallelization of MD5-crypt and bitslice DES has been added. DES key setup has been reworked. x86-64 assembly code for DES S-boxes has been optimized. Support for DES-based tripcodes has been added. Larger hash table sizes for faster processing of millions of hashes per salt have been added. Detection of Intel AVX and AMD XOP with fallback to an alternate program binary has been added. Fallback to a non-OpenMP build has been added. A benchmark result comparison tool has been added. The bundled common passwords list has been updated. Many minor enhancements and a few bugfixes were made.
Release Notes: OpenMP support has been added for MD5-based crypt(3) and Apache $apr1$ hashes when building with SSE2 intrinsics, as well as for SAP CODVN B and SAP CODVN G. Raw MD4 has been enhanced with optional SSE2 intrinsics. The SSE2 intrinsics code for MD4, MD5, and SHA-1 has been pre-built with Intel's compiler into an assembly file, used with the new i-suffixed make targets. Support for occasional false positives or multiple correct guesses has been added and made use of for WinZip/AES and CRC-32. md5_gen has been renamed to dynamic. Numerous other fixes and enhancements have been made.
Release Notes: Support for cracking of encrypted PKZIP archives, Mac OS X 10.7 salted SHA-512 hashes, and DES-based tripcodes has been added. Optional OpenMP parallelization has been added for salted SHA-1 hashes of Mac OS X 10.4-10.6. DIGEST-MD5 cracker has been revised to be usable without requiring source code customizations. Experimental support for dynamically loaded plugins has been added. ".include" directive support and duplicate rule suppression have been added for john.conf. Support for additional character encodings and related features has been added. Numerous other enhancements have been made.
Release Notes: Support for more character encodings via the new "--encoding" option has been added (currently UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, koi8-r, and cp1251). Support for raw SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 hashes has been added. The Makefile has been revised to work with Solaris native make again.
Release Notes: Support for compile-time plugins has been introduced to make it easy to create non-conflicting source code patches adding new hash and cipher types. Performance at MSCash2 (Domain Cached Credentials of modern Windows systems) has been improved through the use of SSE2. "Generic MD5" code has been enhanced to provide more of the MD5 and SHA-1 based hash types under more build targets. WinZip/AES cracker has been enhanced with optional OpenMP parallelization.
Release Notes: The jumbo patch has been rebased to 1.7.8. Support for cracking password-protected WinZip archives with AES encryption has been added. Compile-time detection of OpenSSL 0.9.8+ has been added, automatically enabling support for Sybase ASE and hmailserver hashes. The performance on MSCash2 (Domain Cached Credentials of modern Windows systems) has been improved. Other minor performance and portability improvements have been made.
Release Notes: The bitslice DES S-box expressions and code have been replaced, reducing the gate count by 17% and typically speeding up DES-based crypt(3) cracking by 13%. Support for bcrypt hashes of passwords containing non-ASCII characters has been corrected, and a backwards compatibility feature for broken bcrypt hashes of such passwords has been added. The external mode virtual machine's performance has been improved through additional multi-op instructions. AppendLuhn external mode has been added, which appends the Luhn algorithm digit. A few minor bugfixes and enhancements were made.
Release Notes: Support for cracking OpenSSH's passphrase-protected SSH protocol 2 private keys (with OpenMP parallelization), password-protected PDF files with RC4 encryption, and some password-protected RAR archives has been added. Support for SybaseASE, hmailserver, and MediaWiki "B" type password hashes has been added. There were also many minor enhancements.
Release Notes: MD5 and SHA-1 based hashes have been sped up with SSE2 intrinsics. md5_gen has been expanded with more hash types. UTF-8 support has been added ("--utf8"). MPI parallelization support for all cracking modes has been integrated. OpenMP parallelization support has been added to more hash types. New formats have been added: mskrb5 (offline attack on MS Kerberos 5 pre-authentication data), rawMD5unicode (MD5 of UCS-2 encoded plaintext), and salted_sha1 (faster handling of some LDAP {SSHA} hashes). The "unique" program, Markov mode, ETA display, and programming interfaces have been enhanced.
