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Long time ago, I posted a guide on how to make John the Ripper able to crack MD5 hashes (http://www.disenchant.ch/blog/teaching-john-the-ripper-how-to-crack-md5-hashes/106). In that posting where some errors and also it’s not up to date so I made a small shell script which downloads, patches and compile JtR 1.7.3.4 for you automatically
wget http://www.openwall.com/john/g/john-1.7.3.4.tar.gz
tar xvf john-1.7.3.4.tar.gz
wget http://www.openwall.com/john/contrib/john-1.7.3.4-jumbo-1.diff.gz
gunzip john-1.7.3.4-jumbo-1.diff.gz
cp [...]

Since a few days, the new iPhone OS 3.0 is available but in Switzerland Tethering is afaik not officially supported by either Swisscom, Orange or Sunrise. bench-artwork.ch has the solution for this and provides configurations for all three big provider. You can find all the information here (it’s in german).
PS: For all Linux users like [...]

Today I was playing around with the well known password cracking tool John the Ripper (JtR) and was looking forward to crack some MD5 hashes. Unfortunately, John still not supports raw-MD5 out of the box and so I was searching the web for a solution. It took me some minutes until I found out, that [...]

Downloading Videos of spiegel.de

Because of the sister of a friend needed to download videos of spiegel.de for school, I searched for a possibility to do that. It took just a few minutes (or even seconds) to find what I was looking for by analyzing the HTTP traffic, sent to the server by the Movie-Player of SPIEGEL ONLINE, which [...]