# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. # Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and # the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. # You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| john: john (Password cracker) john: john: John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for john: many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting john: different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary john: purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) john: password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors john: supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS. john: john: john: