Many others have contributed indirectly (not through git). Top contributors who made 10+ commits each since 1.8.0-jumbo-1:Ībout 70 others have also directly contributed (with 1 to 6 commits each), see doc/CREDITS-jumbo and doc/CHANGES-jumbo (auto-generated from git). It's been 4.5 years and 6000+ jumbo tree commits (not counting JtR core tree commits, nor merge commits) since we released 1.8.0-jumbo-1:ĭuring this time, we recommended most users to use bleeding-jumbo, our development tree, which worked reasonably well - yet we also see value
I expect to add some binary builds later (perhaps Win64). Only the source code tarball (and indeed repository link) is published right now. We've just released John the Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1, available from the usual place, here. If you would rather use a commercial product tailored for your specific operating system, please consider John the Ripper Pro, which is distributed primarily in the form of 'native' packages for the target operating systems and in general is meant to be easier to install and use while delivering optimal performance. John the Ripper is free and Open Source software, distributed primarily in source code form.
Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords.
