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by Vincent Foley.
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I saw on Digg that the new version of John the Ripper, the well-known password cracker is out. In an interview with the author, he mentions that he has done a lot of micro-optimizations to make it as fast as possible. I was wondering, wouldn’t it be much faster to write a password [...]