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Re: New article on SecurityFocus: John the Ripper creator interview
From: "Justin Ferguson" <jnferguson () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:12:42 -0800
It greatly disapoints me to see Solar mainly remembered for this program instead of all the breakthroughs and innovations he has accomplished. While it is nice to honor him with an article about john, let us not be unmindful that he pioneered the heap overflow as many of us know it (or rather the unlink() technique, but he opened pandora's box), or the non-exec stack patches, or openwall linux, or all of his hard work on pam modules and so on. It would have been nice to see some of that mentioned in his interview somewhere, people tend to forget that john the ripper was just a small piece of this mans work. On 2/22/06, Erin Carroll <amoeba () amoebazone com> wrote:
John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer interview by Federico Biancuzzi 2006-02-22 Federico Biancuzzi interviews Solar Designer, creator of the popular John the Ripper password cracker. Solar Designer discusses what's new in version 1.7, the advantages of popular cryptographic hashes, the relative speed at which many passwords can now be cracked, and how one can choose strong passphrases (forget passwords) that are harder to break. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/388 -- Erin Carroll Moderator SecurityFocus pen-test list "Do Not Taunt Happy-Fun Ball" -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release Date: 2/22/2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Audit your website security with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner: Hackers are concentrating their efforts on attacking applications on your website. Up to 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc. Firewalls, SSL and locked-down servers are futile against web application hacking. Check your website for vulnerabilities to SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other web attacks before hackers do! Download Trial at: http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/pen-test_050831 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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