From: Justin Ferguson (jnferguson@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 04:12:42 EST
It greatly disapoints me to see Solar mainly remembered for this
program instead of all the breakthroughs and innovations he has
accomplished. While it is nice to honor him with an article about
john, let us not be unmindful that he pioneered the heap overflow as
many of us know it (or rather the unlink() technique, but he opened
pandora's box), or the non-exec stack patches, or openwall linux, or
all of his hard work on pam modules and so on.
It would have been nice to see some of that mentioned in his interview
somewhere, people tend to forget that john the ripper was just a small
piece of this mans work.
On 2/22/06, Erin Carroll <amoeba@amoebazone.com> wrote:
> John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer
> interview by Federico Biancuzzi
> 2006-02-22
>
> Federico Biancuzzi interviews Solar Designer, creator of the popular John
> the Ripper password cracker. Solar Designer discusses what's new in version
> 1.7, the advantages of popular cryptographic hashes, the relative speed at
> which many passwords can now be cracked, and how one can choose strong
> passphrases (forget passwords) that are harder to break.
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/388
>
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