John the Ripper 1.7.2 릴리즈

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John the Ripper 1.7.2 가 릴리즈 되었습니다.

달라진 점은 아래와 같습니다.

The following changes have been made between John 1.7.1 and 1.7.2:
* Bitslice DES assembly code for x86-64 making use of the 64-bit mode
extended SSE2 with 16 XMM registers has been added for better performance
at DES-based crypt(3) hashes with x86-64 builds on AMD processors.
* New make target for FreeBSD/x86-64.

The following changes have been made between John 1.7.0.2 and 1.7.1:
* Bitslice DES code for x86 with SSE2 has been added for better performance
at DES-based crypt(3) hashes on Pentium 4 and SSE2-capable AMD processors.
* Assorted high-level changes have been applied to improve performance
on current x86-64 processors.
* New make target for NetBSD/SPARC64.
* Minor source code cleanups.

The following changes have been made between John 1.7 and 1.7.0.2:
* Minor bug and portability fixes.
* Better handling of certain uncommon scenarios and improper uses of John.
* Bonus: "Keyboard" cracker included in the default john.conf (john.ini)
that will try sequences of adjacent keys on a keyboard as passwords.

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