John the Ripper
is a fast password cracker, available for many operating systems.
Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords,
although Windows LM hashes
and a number of other password hash types are supported as well.
John the Ripper is free and Open Source software,
distributed primarily in source code form.
John the Ripper Pro builds upon the free John the Ripper to deliver
a commercial product better tailored for specific operating systems.
It is distributed primarily in the form of "native" packages for
the target operating systems.
On Linux, the features currently specific to Pro versions are:
Pre-built and well-tested native packages (RPM),
which may be installed with a single command - no need to compile
Even though these are RPM rather than deb packages,
instructions for easy installation on Debian and Ubuntu
are also included
Separate packages for newer 64-bit capable systems (x86_64)
and older 32-bit systems (i686)
Automatic detection of multi-core CPUs and use of multi-threading,
with transparent fallback
to a single-threaded build on single-core machines (or VMs)
or when use of multiple sub-processes instead of threads is requested
(with the --fork=N option)
Automatic detection of processor architecture extensions:
AMD XOP, Intel AVX, SSE2, MMX for
much faster processing at some hash types,
with transparent fallback on older CPUs
A large multilingual wordlist
(5,014,869 entries, 55 MB uncompressed) is included in the package,
and John the Ripper is pre-configured for its use
The included documentation is revised to be specific
for the given package on Linux rather than generic,
making it easier to understand
As a bonus, the full source code sufficient to rebuild the
package is also provided (can be downloaded separately)
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Your private download directory will be created and made available to you
immediately upon receipt of your payment.
Unconditional 7-day money back guarantee
for purely online payments (including credit card payments, but not including bank wire transfers):
if you're for any reason or for no reason at all unsatisfied with the product or download service,
we will refund your payment on your request if the request arrives within 7 days after your payment date.
Low price guarantee:
our prices on this product are the lowest you can find.
If you find a better price on a commercial product with at least the same functionality, for the same operating system,
with upgrades and support similar to those included with your purchase, and if you inform us within 30 days of your payment,
we will gladly refund the price difference.
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Please don't hesitate to e-mail us at <orders at openwall.com>
if you experience any problems placing an order or completing your download, or to request a refund.
The following Linux distributions are supported by the latest version of
John the Ripper Pro:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and above, and CentOS 5 and above
any other distribution with RPM 4+, glibc 2.3.4+, Linux kernel 2.6+
for x86(-64)
Yes, most of these versions are pretty old, which is intentional - we built
the package in such a way that it will run even on these older systems,
as well as on your newer ones.
Additionally, you will be able to download a previous version of
John the Ripper Pro, which supports even older distributions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS (any version)
Fedora Core (any version)
Red Hat Linux 7.0 and above
This is the old product name and version numbering that Red Hat used
many years ago - yes, many of these ancient versions are in fact supported
FreeBSD-style MD5-based crypt(3)
- older Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Cisco IOS, OpenBSD (non-default)
Also supported are Apache httpd "apr1" hashes
(these are a variation of the above)
