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Message-ID: <20190412192702.GA18678@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 21:27:02 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: announce@...ts.openwall.com, john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: John the Ripper 1.9.0
Hi,
I've just released John the Ripper 1.9.0, available from the usual place:
https://www.openwall.com/john/
These days, this original John the Ripper source tree serves primarily
as the core tree for John the Ripper -jumbo. A 1.9.0-jumbo-1 release
based off this 1.9.0 core is coming shortly. Meanwhile, the
bleeding-jumbo branch on GitHub is already updated to the 1.9.0 core.
While this is a major release (after almost 6 years since the 1.8.0 core
release), the community's progress in development of jumbo has been so
much greater that any changes I make to core are relatively small, as is
core itself. Yet they are important. Besides serving as the core for
jumbo, other uses of this tree include cases where core's functionality
alone is still sufficient or where (cross-)compiling jumbo for a given
target system is too difficult or (as a first step in) porting John the
Ripper to an unusual new platform.
The following changes have been made between John 1.8.0 and 1.9.0:
* Increased the interleaving for bcrypt on x86-64 from 2x to 3x for a major
speedup on CPUs without SMT. Unfortunately, this sometimes results in a minor
performance regression when running multiple threads on CPUs with SMT.
* Recognize the $2b$ bcrypt prefix.
* In the generic crypt(3) format, detect descrypt with valid vs. invalid salts
as separate id's for our heuristics on supported hash types.
* Introduced a number of optimizations for faster handling of large password
hash files, including loading, cracking, and "--show". Some of these use more
memory than before, yet in a more efficient manner.
* Benchmark using all-different candidate passwords of length 7 by default.
* Dropped undocumented special handling of "Mc" in 'c' and 'C' rule commands.
* Dropped undocumented limitation of the 'M' and 'Q' rule commands where they
would sometimes memorize/check only up to the current hash type's length limit
yet this optimization wouldn't necessarily be transparent (e.g., if a later
command would extract a substring from above the hash type's length limit and
bring it to within the limit).
* Implemented special-case handling of repeated rule commands '$', '^', '[',
']', '{', and '}', as well as faster handling of the 'D' command.
* When built with "--fork" support, disallow session names with all-digit
suffixes since these clash with those produced by "--fork".
* Forward SIGTERM to --fork'ed children.
* Set stdout to line buffered (rather than potentially fully buffered), except
for "--stdout", "--show", and auxiliary programs such as "unshadow".
* On Windows, restore normal processing of Ctrl-C in case our parent (such as
Johnny the GUI) had disabled it.
* Added linux-x86*-avx512 and linux-x86*-avx2 make targets, which use
respectively AVX-512 and AVX2 for bitslice DES.
* Added linux-mic make target for Intel MIC (first generation Xeon Phi, aka
Knights Corner), which uses its 512-bit SIMD intrinsics for bitslice DES.
(For second generation Xeon Phi, aka Knights Landing, use linux-x86-64-avx512.)
* Added linux-arm64le, linux-arm32le-neon, and linux-arm32le make targets.
(The first two of these make use of ASIMD or NEON for bitslice DES.)
* Added linux-sparc64 make target.
* Made a minor optimization to MMX and SSE2 assembly code for LM hash.
* Dropped Ultrix and SCO support.
* Don't probe for alternate config file names (like john.ini when on Unix).
* "DokuWiki" external mode sample has been added to the default john.conf.
* Fixed operator precedence in the external mode compiler to be the same as C.
* Fixed an out of bounds write bug in the external mode virtual machine.
* Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.7.4 in the wordlist rules engine, where
some sequences of rule commands could overflow a word buffer.
* Fixed a bug where unaligned access SSE/AVX instructions would unnecessarily
be generated by GCC 4.6+ in the bitslice DES code in non-OpenMP builds.
* Fixed a bug where "Warning: no OpenMP support for this hash type" could be
printed in "--stdout" mode.
* Made assorted other bugfixes, portability and documentation enhancements.
Please stay tuned for the 1.9.0-jumbo-1 release and announcement, which
will be "the real one". There's no way I'd be able to list jumbo's
changes with the above level of detail - there have been way too many -
but I plan on listing the release highlights.
Alexander
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