Hi,
This is to announce the availability of a new ISO-9660 image
for the
development branch of Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl-current), as
well as
updates to contributed patches for John the Ripper.
1. There's a new ISO-9660 image of Owl-current dated
2007/06/01. The
following packages have been significantly updated since the
last ISO
snapshot (January 9, 2007): PCRE, strace, BIND, OpenSSL,
GnuPG, lftp,
ELinks, file, Mutt, owl-cdrom.
New with this ISO is support for booting off SATA and USB
CD-ROM drives,
in addition to IDE and SCSI ones that were supported
previously.
(Obviously, not all SATA and SCSI controllers are supported,
but the
goal is to include support for common ones.)
As usual, the major changes are documented here:
htt
p://www.openwall.com/Owl/CHANGES-current.shtml
and the ISO image can be downloaded from under
/pub/Owl/current/iso (or
equivalent) on the FTP mirrors:
http://www
.openwall.com/Owl/DOWNLOAD.shtml
(The mirrors in Poland and Sweden do not yet have this new
ISO. We'll
try to fix that. Meanwhile, please use any of the remaining
mirrors.)
2. JoMo-Kun has contributed a patch to add support for
cracking of
sniffed LM/NTLMv1 challenge/response exchanges to John the
Ripper. The
patch is now listed on John the Ripper homepage and it is a
part of the
latest revision of the jumbo patch for John the Ripper
1.7.2:
http://www.openwall.com
/john/
The following john-users posting describes a usage scenario
for this
functionality:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2007/05/31/1
3. Alain Espinosa's NTLM (MD4-based) hashes support patch
for John the
Ripper has been further updated to include optional SSE2
code for x86
and x86-64, resulting in even better performance. On
"plain" SSE2, it
will try 5 candidate passwords in parallel. On x86-64
extended SSE2, it
will try as many as 8 candidate passwords in parallel. The
actual
speedup measured on some current CPUs (Intel Core 2) is up
to 2.5x, with
older CPUs seeing little speedup.
This new patch can be downloaded from John the Ripper
homepage at the
URL given above, and it has also been merged into the jumbo
patch.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
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