Bug#935483: ITP: johnny -- GUI front-end for John the Ripper

[Michael Cordingley <Michael.Cordingley@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michael Cordingley <Michael.Cordingley@gmail.com>

* Package name    : johnny
  Version         : 2.2
  Upstream Author : Shinnok <admin@shinnok.com>
* URL             : https://openwall.info/wiki/john/johnny
* License         : BSD-2-clause
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : GUI front-end for John the Ripper

Overview

Johnny the open source cross-platform GUI frontend for John the Ripper, the
popular password cracker, written in C++ using the Qt framework.

Johnny's aim is to automate and simplify the password cracking routine on the
Desktop as well as add extra functionality like session management and easy
hash/password management, on top of the immense capabilities and features
offered by John the Ripper.

The application uses John The Ripper for the actual work, thus it needs to be
installed on your system. Official core (proper) version and the
community-enhanced version (jumbo) are both supported. The latter exposes more
functionality like extra cracking modes and hash types support.

To download official binary redistributables and find more about Johnny visit:
http://openwall.info/wiki/john/johnny

Rationale

This package is useful for penetration testers and is used downstream by Kali.
I will need a sponsor and a mentor for taking proper care of it. Furthermore,
the package appears to fit in with the explicit goals of the pkg-security team.
The plan is that this would be a low-impact and low-maintenance package with
which to wet my feet on helping out the Debian project.