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dfc · on Aug 3, 2011

I can't believe someone posted the answer that's pretty lame. John is a password cracker, its probably "the password cracker." John has optimized assembly instructions for many hashes for many cpus so its blazingly fast for a CPU attack. Reallocating GPUs from btc mining to this would have been a waste given that the answer was in /usr/share/dict

callahad · on Aug 3, 2011

Is this the place where I admit that the fastest way to reverse an md5 hash like that is to google it?

dools · on Aug 3, 2011

That's exactly what I did yesterday :) Even though I'm not even looking for a job.

Then I went to their website to email them anyway and wasted more time figuring out the address to send it to.

dfc · on Aug 3, 2011

You realize in the time to init a repo you could have solved the problem with john.

benawabe896 · on Aug 3, 2011

I'm not sure who or what john is :) I just thought it was a fun exercise, and since the solution was already posted, I figured it could be beneficial to post one way of doing it.

benwr · on Aug 3, 2011

http://www.openwall.com/john/