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Re: John the Ripper



Hi,

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 22:45 -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
> I've had John running since Jan '08 and it's yet to break my password.
> Admittedly the password is non-trivial being 13 characters, mixed
> upper and lower case, numbers and punctuation but I keep expecting
> John to send me a note saying it's been cracked since John runs
> six hours each night and my computer is on at night more often than
> not.
> Is there some further configuration necessary to John installed with
> apt-get before it will crack normal Debian passwords?
> BTW, this is a mostly stock Etch system.

See "How long should I expect John to run?" in/usr/share/doc/john/FAQ.gz

Regards,

Franklin


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