
There's a collection of wordlists for use with John the Ripper. The more experienced users and software developers may browse the source code for John the Ripper online, along with revision history information for each source file. There's a wiki section with John the Ripper user community resources. Also relevant is this presentation on the history of password security by Solar Designer, the author of John the Ripper. You may browse the documentation for John the Ripper online, including a summary of changes between versions. These and older versions of John the Ripper, patches, unofficial builds, and many other related files are also available from the Openwall file archive. You may also consider the patches and unofficial builds on the contributed resources list further down this page. However, if you choose to download the source code instead (for a specific good reason), then please refer to these pages on how to extract John the Ripper source code from the tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives and how to build (compile) it. You will most likely need to download a "Windows - binaries" archive above. To verify authenticity and integrity of your John the Ripper downloads, please use our PGP public key. There are unofficial binary builds (by John the Ripper user community members) for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. Unfortunately, its overall quality is lower than the official version's. This version integrates lots of contributed patches adding GPU support (CUDA and OpenCL), support for a hundred of additional hash and cipher types (including popular ones such as NTLM, raw MD5, etc., and even things such as encrypted OpenSSH private keys, ZIP and RAR archives, PDF files, etc.), as well as some optimizations and features.

John the Ripper 1.7.9 (Unix - sources, tar.bz2, 701 KB) and its signature.

John the Ripper 1.7.9 (Unix - sources, tar.gz, 848 KB) and its signature.On Windows, consider Hash Suite (developed by a contributor to John the Ripper)ĭownload one of the latest official free versions ( release notes):.Proceed to John the Ripper Pro homepage for your OS: 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.
