Openwall - John the Ripper

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Analyzed 11 days ago. based on code collected 12 days ago.

Project Summary

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. 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 NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.

In a Nutshell, Openwall - John the Ripper...

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has had 1,091 commits made by 3 contributors
representing 16,464 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a low number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 4 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2002
ending with its most recent commit over 3 years ago

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:pserver:anoncvs:[email protected]

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Solar Designer

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