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

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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:58:24 +0100
From: Simon Marechal <simon@...quise.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: bob the butcher distributed password cracker

Big Wave Dave wrote:
> A similar application already exists called "djohn" (distributed
> john).  You may want to look into it.  I found the author's site to be
> down, but was able to track the source code elsewhere.
> 
> Dave

As discuted before on this ML, djohn lacks a lot of features.

BtB does too, but i think it's a lot more usable right now (works with
multiple password files at the same time, no need to copy them manually
all over the place for example), and i hope to add them ASAP.