The following changes have been made between John 1.7.3.1 and 1.7.3.4: * "make check" has been implemented (for Unix-like systems only). * The "--test" option will now take an optional argument - the duration of each benchmark in seconds. * Section .note.GNU-stack has been added to all assembly files to avoid the stack area unnecessarily being made executable on Linux systems that use this mechanism. * Some very minor bugs that did not affect normal operation have been fixed. * Some unimportant compiler warnings have been fixed, a source code comment has been made more verbose and more complete. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.3 and 1.7.3.1: * Corrected the x86 assembly files for building on Mac OS X. * Merged in some generic changes from JtR Pro. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.2 and 1.7.3: * Two Blowfish-based crypt(3) hashes may now be computed in parallel for much better performance on modern multi-issue CPUs with a sufficient number of registers (e.g., x86-64). * Bitslice DES assembly code for x86-64 has been converted to use instruction pointer relative addressing (needed for Mac OS X support). * New make targets: macosx-universal, macosx-x86-64, solaris-x86-64-cc, solaris-x86-64-gcc, solaris-x86-sse2-cc, solaris-x86-sse2-gcc, solaris-x86-mmx-cc, solaris-x86-mmx-gcc, solaris-x86-any-cc, linux-ia64; other changes to the Makefile. * Minor bug fixes. * "DumbForce" and "KnownForce" external mode samples have been added to the default john.conf. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.1 and 1.7.2: * Bitslice DES assembly code for x86-64 making use of the 64-bit mode extended SSE2 with 16 XMM registers has been added for better performance at DES-based crypt(3) hashes with x86-64 builds on AMD processors. * New make target for FreeBSD/x86-64. The following changes have been made between John 1.7.0.2 and 1.7.1: * Bitslice DES code for x86 with SSE2 has been added for better performance at DES-based crypt(3) hashes on Pentium 4 and SSE2-capable AMD processors. * Assorted high-level changes have been applied to improve performance on current x86-64 processors. * New make target for NetBSD/SPARC64. * Minor source code cleanups. The following changes have been made between John 1.7 and 1.7.0.2: * Minor bug and portability fixes. * Better handling of certain uncommon scenarios and improper uses of John. * Bonus: "Keyboard" cracker included in the default john.conf (john.ini) that will try sequences of adjacent keys on a keyboard as passwords. The following changes have been made between John 1.6 and 1.7: * Bitslice DES code for x86 with MMX: more than twice faster than older non-bitslice MMX code. * Bitsliced the LM hash code as well: now several times faster. * Significant improvements to the generic bitslice DES code: +20% on RISC. * PowerPC G4+ AltiVec support (Mac OS X and Linux): effective 128-bitness for bitslice DES, resulting in huge speedups. * First attempt at generic vectorization support for bitslice DES. * Two MD5 hashes at a time for extra ILP on RISC: up to +80% on Alpha EV5+. * Generic Blowfish x86 assembly code in addition to the original Pentium version: +15% on the Pentium Pro family (up to and including Pentium III), +20% on AMD K6 (Pentium 4 and newer AMD CPUs are more happy running the original Pentium code for Blowfish). * Verbose logging of events to the global or a session-specific log file. * Better idle priority emulation with POSIX.1b (POSIX.4) scheduling calls. * System-wide installation support for *BSD ports and Linux distributions. * AIX, DU/Tru64 C2, HP-UX tcb files support in unshadow. * New make targets for Linux/x86-64, Linux/PowerPC, FreeBSD/Alpha, OpenBSD/x86-64, OpenBSD/Alpha, OpenBSD/SPARC, OpenBSD/SPARC64, OpenBSD/PowerPC, OpenBSD/PA-RISC, OpenBSD/VAX, NetBSD/VAX, Solaris/SPARC64, Mac OS X (PowerPC and x86), SCO, BeOS. * Bug and portability fixes, and new bugs. * Bonus: "Strip" cracker included in the default john.conf (john.ini). $Owl: Owl/packages/john/john/doc/CHANGES,v 1.32 2009/09/14 02:18:20 solar Exp $
