John The Ripper 1.7.8 Jumbo 7 release

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash types commonly found on Unix systems, as well as Windows LM hashes. On top of this, many other hash types are added with contributed patches, and some are added in John the Ripper Pro.

Changes: 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.