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John

Description

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, macOS, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS (the latter requires a contributed patch). Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos/AFS and Windows LM hashes, as well as DES-based tripcodes, plus hundreds of additional hashes and ciphers in "-jumbo" versions.

Usage

john hashes.john -w=/opt/rockyou.txt

Convert

rar2john archive.rar > hash.john
zip2john archive.zip > hash.john
7z2john archive.7z > hash.john
office2john document.docx > hash.john
pdf2john secret.pdf > hash.john
ssh2john key.ssh > hash.john

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