john-users - Re: bob the butcher distributed password cracker

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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:58:18 +0100
From: Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: bob the butcher distributed password cracker

Rembrandt wrote:
> If you wanna crack using multiple Computers use Crack5, Slurpie or
> whatever. Even you code your own Tool it will not help improving john. :-(

Most distributed password cracker projects i saw either:
* were dead
* were slow
* were not easy to use (required manual actions)
* would not work with multiple etherogeneous password files

And about me improving john you should look in the contrib section.

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