John the Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-6 , adds GPU support in New Release

John the Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-6 Released earlier today. This is a"Community-enhanced" version, which includes many contributions from JtRcommunity members.

"John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version."

The biggest newthing is integrated GPU support, both CUDA and OpenCL - although for a subset of the hash and non-hash types only, not for all that aresupported on CPU.

Its speeds on Core i7-2600K 3.4 GHz (actually 3.5 GHz due to Turbo Boost) are:

1 thread:
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS AVX-16]... DONE
Many salts: 5802K c/s real, 5861K c/s virtual
Only one salt: 5491K c/s real, 5546K c/s virtual

8 threads (on 4 physical cores):
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS AVX-16]... DONE
Many salts: 22773K c/s real, 2843K c/s virtual
Only one salt: 18284K c/s real, 2291K c/s virtual

1 thread:
Benchmarking: LM DES [128/128 BS AVX-16]... DONE
Raw: 71238K c/s real, 71238K c/s virtual

4 threads:
Benchmarking: LM DES [128/128 BS AVX-16]... DONE
Raw: 108199K c/s real, 27117K c/s virtual

Features Added

Added optional parallelization of the MD5-based crypt(3) code with OpenMP.
Added optional parallelization of the bitslice DES code with OpenMP.
Optimized the DES S-box x86-64 (16-register SSE2) assembly code.
Added support for 10-character DES-based tripcodes (not optimized yet).
Added two more hash table sizes (16M and 128M entries) for faster
processing of very large numbers of hashes per salt (over 1M).
Made some minor optimizations to external mode function calls and
virtual machine implementation.

and More..

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