GSoC/GCI Archive
Google Summer of Code 2012 Openwall

MJohn

by Aleksey Cherepanov for Openwall

MJohn is an infrastructure around John the Ripper to simplify or fully automate everyday tasks of a hash cracker or a team of them. One of the goals of that project is to improve collaboration and distribution during CrackMeIfYouCan contest. This project touches or even includes following roles from the ideas page: JtR: automatic rule set generation, JtR: distributed processing, including a possible sub-task: Greater interaction with running cracking sessions, JtR: parallel processing (on one node).