ANNOUNCE: john

[Michael Schwendt]

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/OrphanedPackages

After three weeks of being listed as a "package without maintainer", the

  john

package was picked up by Gavin Henry <ghenry at suretecsystems.com>, who
volunteered to take care of it.

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John the Ripper is a fast password cracker. Its primary purpose is to
detect weak Unix passwords, but a number of other hash types are
supported as well.