Talk:John the Ripper
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[edit] Jack
I may be wrong, but i seem to recall that "jack" (the tool) was called "cracker jack" and not "jack the cracker".
Is this a safe program to install on the computer?
John the Ripper is a perfectly safe program to install and run, as most popular UNIX tools. If you are running a multi-user system, you should make sure you are shadowing your password file such that the hashes are not visible; however even if you are not, not installing John will not prevent a malicious user from running John on their own computer with your hashes. 24.29.130.37 07:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
What does the word 'canned' mean in the last paragraph? I'm an old dude, and ain't hip to the lingo. Two Halves
[edit] Huh?
Except for modern Intel CPUs, the modern AMD CPUs (like Opterons or other AMD64-CPUs) do provide 16 SSE2-Registers, but only in the 64-bit mode (only in 32-bit mode).
I'm confused.. What is being said here? "Except for ..." would exclude "Intel CPUs" from the set "modern AMD CPUs," but "intel CPUs" are not "modern AMD CPUs," so why are they an exception? I think that should be "Unlike modern Intel CPUs," but I don't know enough about the subject to know if that is correct either...
[edit] Jack the Cracker
I removed these two paragraphs from the article:
- The name "John the ripper" was coined by Lost Soul, a cracker from UNITED_cRACKING_fORCE, who coined this name after Jack the cracker (The password cracker that preceded John the ripper).
Lost soul thought that the previous password cracker wasn't named properly and wanted to 'fix' this mistake by making John 'the ripper', the way Jack should've been in the first place...
- Also, John the ripper sounded as a good alternative for jack the cracker, eventually it took Jack's place.
(Note that the later paragraph was added by Lost Soul, himself).
They have no sources, and being "added by Lost Soul, himself" does not count. - furrykef (Talk at me) 22:09, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
