After 4.5 years and 6000+ commits, John the Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 password cracker is out: openwall.com/lists/announce…
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Infosec focused free software, research, publications, community activities @oss_security. Tweets are announcements. Please direct questions to @solardiz.
Joined June 2010
- Announcing our most controversial project ever: Linux Kernel Runtime Guard is an LKM that post-detects kernel exploits openwall.com/lkrg/
- Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) now has its own website lkrg.org and Twitter account @lkrg_org. Version 0.9.2 by @Adam_pi3 et al. adds support for new Linux kernels (5.14 to 5.16-rc* and hopefully beyond). openwall.com/lists/announce…
- John the Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 is out after 2+ years in development: openwall.com/lists/john-use…
- John the Ripper 1.9.0 core is out: openwall.com/lists/announce… Stay tuned for 1.9.0-jumbo-1, which will be "the real one".
- Just published slides of @solardiz's @offensive_con keynote talk "Password cracking: past, present, future" openwall.com/lists/announce…
- "yescrypt - password hashing scalable beyond bcrypt and scrypt" #PHDays talk slides by @solardiz: openwall.com/presentations/…
- yespower 1.0.0 - a proof-of-work (PoW) focused fork of yescrypt: openwall.com/lists/announce…
- Juho Junnila's Master's Thesis "Effectiveness of Linux Rootkit Detection Tools" shows our LKRG as by far the most effective kernel rootkit detector (of those tested), even though that wasn't our primary focus: openwall.com/lists/lkrg-use… h/t @Adam_pi3
- John the Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-6 adds GPU support (CUDA & OpenCL) and A LOT more, biggest -jumbo update ever: openwall.com/1796
- Our USENIX WOOT'13 slides and paper "Looking inside the (Drop) box" (Security Analysis of #Dropbox): openwall.com/presentations/…
- Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) 0.9.8 by @Adam_pi3 et al. is out, adding a remote kernel message logging capability sponsored by @binarly_io. openwall.com/lists/announce… This update is already packaged for Rocky Enterprise Linux 8.9 and 9.3 @rocky_linux. sig-security.rocky.page/packages/lkrg/
- Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) 0.6 by @Adam_pi3 adds poor man's CFI, systemd support, and much more: openwall.com/lists/announce…

