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Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• john

Projektgeschichte

John the Ripper began in 1996 as Solar Designer's replacement for Cracker Jack, with prototypes for incremental mode dating to 1995. It became open source in 1997, and the 1.5 rewrite in 1998 became the basis for later versions. The public GitHub repository was created in 2011 and uses bleeding-jumbo as its default branch.

The Jumbo branch formalized the place where experimental and community-contributed cracking formats, scripts, and documentation could land faster than in the core release. Openwall's own README warns that Jumbo contains much more functionality and lower maturity guarantees than core, which is exactly why it became the branch most security practitioners reach for when they need broad format coverage.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Openwall distributes Jumbo source and Windows binaries and recommends the GitHub development source in preference to the old Jumbo release tarball. Homebrew packages it separately as john-jumbo, where it conflicts with the core john formula and pulls in extra dependencies such as GMP and OpenSSL.

The upstream homepage and Homebrew formula show the package-manager split clearly: core john remains available, while john-jumbo is the enhanced formula for users who want broader cracking coverage.

Wie es verwendet wird

Jumbo is used for password-auditing jobs where the input format may be archive files, office documents, SSH keys, cryptocurrency wallets, network captures, operating-system password stores, databases, or web application hashes. Users typically run converter tools where needed, crack with john, and inspect results with john --show or the john.pot store.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The john-jumbo formula is package-nerd-interesting because it captures a real upstream social split: a conservative core and a fast-moving, format-rich Jumbo branch. It also exposes the maintenance cost of security packages that bundle optimized CPU/GPU code, optional cryptographic libraries, helper scripts, and many architecture-specific assumptions.

Zeitleiste

• 1995: Prototypes for John's incremental mode were written.
• 1996: John the Ripper 1.0 was released as a Cracker Jack replacement.
• 1997: John the Ripper became open source.
• 1998: Version 1.5 rewrote the codebase that later versions built upon.
• 2011: The openwall/john GitHub repository was created.
• 2019: Openwall released the 1.9.0 Jumbo line and documented it separately from core.

Related projects

• Related projects include John the Ripper core, John the Ripper Pro, Hash Suite, Hash Suite Droid, Openwall wordlists, yescrypt, crypt_blowfish, passwdqc, john-packages, and the Johnny GUI.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/openwall/john
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/john-jumbo
• https://github.com/openwall/john
• https://www.openwall.com/john/
• https://www.openwall.com/john/doc/
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2015/09/10/4