According to John The Rippers wiki page, John\'s Jumbo edition supports many new
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Question
According to John The Rippers wiki page, John's Jumbo edition supports many new non-hash cracking options like ssh keys, gpg, variety of browser password managers, and many more. From the site I downloaded a sample SSH Private key from john wiki, the problem is that I don't know how to use it with John Jumbo edition which I already have installed and fully updated in my Kali box. Can someone show me how I setup the command line arguments to crack SSH key w/ wordlist using john the ripper jumbo edition?
Explanation / Answer
- Just a bit of warning here: Do NOT waste your time trying to crack a private key using the naive brute force method. There is always a smarter way - Take for example this.
- The feature you mentioned is NOT yet implemented. Expect it in the coming version of JTR.
Meanwhile, there are several tools available for what you intended to do initially.