The word on the street about 1.7 is it is "significantly SLOWER" than 1.6 For example I have two passwords it is attempting to crack and it has been running almost 2 weeks! John S. Gaythorpe - CISSP Director Systems Services Dartmouth College -----Original Message----- From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin.listas@telefonica.net] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 07:53 To: OS-sec Subject: [opensuse-security] About "john" As you see, it is slooooww... even days. I didn't even install "john-wordlists", the 41 MiB "huge word lists for John the Ripper (a fast password cracker)", as the rpm description goes. I expected it to be slow, but... why does it has to try to crack passwords that have not changed during the last week? Could the "security-weekly.sh" script be improved to detect changed passwords and only try those? - -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org