brew

john mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für john in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installationsbefehl Sicherheitshinweise

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install john

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%

sudo port install john

MacPorts ports tree · sysutils/john/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%

sudo apk add john

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · john · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%

sudo apt install john

Debian stable package indexes · john · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install john

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · john · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#john

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/jo/john/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S john

Arch Linux sync databases · john · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%

sudo zypper install john

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · john · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Featureful UNIX password cracker

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

john
unafs
unique
unshadow

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

John the Ripper is a classic open-source password security auditing and recovery tool. Its core identity is a fast Unix password cracker, but the Openwall documentation also presents it as a cross-platform tool for many Unix-like systems, macOS, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS.

Projektgeschichte

According to Solar Designer on the Openwall john-users list, John the Ripper 1.0 was released in 1996 as a DOS replacement for Cracker Jack, built with DJGPP and optimized for 486 and Pentium systems. The same account says the incremental-mode prototypes date to 1995, the project became open source in 1997, and the 1.5 rewrite in 1998 formed the basis of later releases.

Openwall's project page separates core John from Jumbo: the core release is the smaller, more conservative line, while Jumbo carries broader community functionality. The openwall/john GitHub repository was created in 2011 and serves the development source referenced from the official homepage.

Adoptionsgeschichte

John became part of Unix security practice because it automated weak-password detection against common crypt(3) hashes and later gained support for Kerberos/AFS, Windows LM, DES tripcodes, and many additional formats. Openwall notes that John is included in Owl, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, SUSE, and BSD ports or packages.

Homebrew keeps a separate john formula for the core package, conflicting with john-jumbo so users choose between the conservative package and the enhanced branch.

Wie es verwendet wird

The core workflow is to feed John password hashes, let it identify or be told a format, crack with wordlist, single, or incremental modes, and save cracked values to john.pot. Related tools such as unshadow and unique support the Unix password-auditing workflow around the main john executable.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

John is one of the packages that makes Unix security tooling feel like a package-manager canon item: tiny command name, long history, distro ubiquity, and a split between core stability and Jumbo reach. For maintainers, it is also a reminder that packaging security tools means preserving documentation, wordlists, CPU optimizations, and legal/licensing details alongside the executable.

Zeitleiste

1995: Incremental-mode prototypes were written on Unix-like systems.
1996: John the Ripper 1.0 was released for DOS.
1997: John the Ripper became open source.
1998: Version 1.5 rewrote the codebase used by later versions.
2002: The code was imported into CVS for further maintenance as part of Owl.
2011: The openwall/john GitHub repository was created.
2019: Openwall released John the Ripper 1.9.0 core.

Related projects

Related projects include John the Ripper Jumbo, John the Ripper Pro, Openwall wordlists, yescrypt, crypt_blowfish, passwdqc, Hash Suite, Hash Suite Droid, and Johnny, the Openwall GUI frontend.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: red

credential attack tooling.

Risikoklassifikator

red Risiko · hoch Konfidenz · escape-surveillance-offensive

Warum

credential attack tooling

Signale

override:john

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 8 Plattformziele verfügbar.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit
`john`	cli	globales Executable
`unafs`	cli	globales Executable
`unique`	cli	globales Executable
`unshadow`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version1.9.0

Manager aktualisiert2026-06-19

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamnot checked

neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://www.openwall.com/john/

InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.openwall.com/john/none Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:john
Version	1.9.0
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/john
Homepage	https://www.openwall.com/john/
Repository	https://github.com/openwall/john
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://github.com/openwall/john
Lizenz	GPL-2.0-or-later
Quellarchiv	https://www.openwall.com/john/k/john-1.9.0.tar.xz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-06-19T12:31:21-07:00
Pulse	updated
Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken	libxcrypt
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	john
Version Scheme	0
Revision	1
Conflicts With	john-jumbo
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

john 1.9.0-2

active password cracking tool

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

sudo apt install john

Section: admin
Architecture: amd64
4 Abhängigkeiten
1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: john from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Debian apt95%

john-data 1.9.0-2

active password cracking tool - character sets

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

sudo apt install john-data

Section: admin
Architecture: all
Source Package: john
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: john-data from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

Nix95%

john

nix profile install nixpkgs#john

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/jo/john/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Ubuntu apt95%

john 1.9.0-2build1

active password cracking tool

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

sudo apt install john

Section: admin
Architecture: amd64
4 Abhängigkeiten
1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: john from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Ubuntu apt95%

john-data 1.9.0-2build1

active password cracking tool - character sets

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

sudo apt install john-data

Section: admin
Architecture: all
Source Package: john
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: john-data from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

apk95%

john 1.9.0-r8

John the Ripper password cracker

https://www.openwall.com/john

sudo apk add john

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: john
1 Abhängigkeiten
1 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: john from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

john-bash-completion 1.9.0-r8

Bash completions for john

https://www.openwall.com/john

sudo apk add john-bash-completion

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: john
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: john-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

john-doc 1.9.0-r8

John the Ripper password cracker (documentation)

https://www.openwall.com/john

sudo apk add john-doc

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: john
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: john-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

apk95%

john-zsh-completion 1.9.0-r8

Zsh completions for john

https://www.openwall.com/john

sudo apk add john-zsh-completion

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: john
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: john-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

dnf95%

john 1.9.0-12.fc43

John the Ripper password cracker

https://www.openwall.com/john

sudo dnf install john

License: GPL-2.0-only
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: john
6 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: john from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

pacman95%

john 1.9.0.jumbo1-13

John the Ripper password cracker

https://www.openwall.com/john

sudo pacman -S john

License: GPL2 AND custom
Architecture: x86_64
8 Abhängigkeiten
5 optionale Abhängigkeiten
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: john from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

zypper95%

john 1.9.0-9.12

Utility to detect weak passwords

https://www.openwall.com/john/

sudo zypper install john

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Category: Productivity/Security
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: john
14 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: john from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

MacPorts95%

john

sudo port install john

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: John

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/john/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

dnf92%

unique 1.1.6-37.fc44

Single instance support for applications

http://www.gnome.org/~ebassi/source/

sudo dnf install unique

License: LicenseRef-Callaway-LGPLv2+
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: i686
Source Package: unique
19 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
installed executable or alias match
Abgeglichen nach: Unique

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: unique from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

dnf92%

unique-devel 1.1.6-37.fc44

Libraries and headers for Unique

http://www.gnome.org/~ebassi/source/

sudo dnf install unique-devel

License: LicenseRef-Callaway-LGPLv2+
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: i686
Source Package: unique
6 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
installed executable or alias match
Abgeglichen nach: Unique

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: unique-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/john.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

john mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Linux

Paketzusammenfassung

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Projektgeschichte

Adoptionsgeschichte

Wie es verwendet wird

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Zeitleiste

Related projects

Quellen

Risikostufe: red

Risikoklassifikator

Warum

Signale

Installationsverhalten

Empfohlene Prüfung

Installierte Executables

Version und Aktualität

Paketmetadaten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Interne Paketlinks

Themen-Hubs

Gleicher Workflow

Agent-Sicherheitsleitfäden

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Combined YAML source

Verwendete Quellen