Sunday 12 February 2012

John The Ripper

Currently known as best password cracker available. It is command line tool. Officially it supports several Operating Systems including several versions of Linux and UNIX and practically all versions of Windows. If your OS is not supported you can download source files and compile it to get a working tool. The best part of compiled source is that it is optimized to work better on your system. Its primary purpose is to detect weak UNIX, Linux and Windows based password. Both free and pro versions are available and they both are equally good. Please note that many anti-virus programs usually consider password cracking tools as virus or Trojans and John The Ripper doesn't fall in exception. I would better advice you to use this tool on a system without Anti-Virus program.

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