How? This is because john has it’s logic in such a way, that when executing and forcing various passwords using the memory and it’s CPU processing power he can. On the other hand, our friendly neighbourhood john, is also a powerful tool of it’s era, and with correct support john can beat hashcat easily.
#JOHN THE RIPPER ANDROID CRACKED#
This is true, that using only the GPU, hashcat does such fast calculations that anything can be cracked in seconds, even with long wordlists like rockyou.txt. To become the world’s fastest cracking tool. Graphical Processing Unit(GPU) is nothing but a processor, installed in a system to render graphics… Now who thought, that the power of GPU could be this much, that if utilized with a bit of out-of-the-box thinking… It can help a tool like hashcat. To understand this, let’s first jump to the basics… Now, comes the part where we talk about, which one is better… Or to be precise, what are the basis on which we classify them as the winner. Also, it supports to run on some extra distributions, which are termed to be used as industry based.For windows, it has a whole new version called the hash-suite.It supports many password hashes, that are not included in the free version, and you can find about them here.However, before you ask, the pro version has the following features: doing cracking for a general purpose, then the free version is sufficient. Now this is not a promotion, and if you’re like me, i.e. But hey $40 is what you can all spend if you’re in the field of cracking. Actually, if your work is in cracking normal level hashes through brute-force, you definitely don’t need the pro.
Also, John is available for several different platforms which enables you to use the same cracker everywhere (you can even continue a cracking session which you started on another platform).
It combines several cracking modes in one program and is fully configurable for your particular needs (you can even define a custom cracking mode using the built-in compiler supporting a subset of C).
John the Ripper(JTR) is designed to be bot h feature-rich and fast.