John the Ripper 1.7, by Solar Designer (Security Focus)

[Posted February 24, 2006 by ris]

Federico Biancuzzi interviews Solar Designer, creator of the John the Ripper password cracker. "Solar Designer: For the past 9 years I've been spending much of my time on computer and network security. In particular, I've been developing free Unix security tools and other (non-security) software designed to be safe to use, as well as making existing software and technologies safer to use (discovering, dealing with, and sometimes publicizing vulnerabilities whenever that seemed appropriate). This is what the Openwall Project is about."