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 [...]

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 [...]

Everyone who ever tried to recording his screen on a Linux know, that most of the possible ways sucks because they need so much performance that it’ll be impossible to work as usual if you’re recording. Now I found today a really cool way how to do it so that it don’t need as much [...]