After speaking with @Solardiz over twitter yesterday I’ve decided to share this little tweak to John the Ripper which can help to import larger pot files without having to wait for years for it to load up.

I work in IT a large corporation, and one thing that I deal with on a daily basis is password troubleshooting. Be it passwords expiring, so they need me to reset it for them, or data recovery where I need the users password to configure a replacement hard drive for them, I deal with users passwords on a Daily basis.

I was skimming through twitter this morning when a post by the Pentestit.com blog was RT’d by one of the people I’m following. The post was about using nmap to crack passwords for stuff like OpenVAS, NeXpose, etc.