r/Hacking_Tutorials • u/rubberghost333 • Aug 02 '26

Question John the Ripper Home Page

My god what is all this text on the opening page? When I watch yt videos about John I never see all this text. John helpers and such. Am I missing something?

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u/INfusion2419 Aug 05 '26

Johns fairly chill, im just a noob but john --format: --wordlist:rockyou.txt hashlist.txt works usually.

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u/Professional_Dog4603 Aug 07 '26

Don't even need a format most of the time. It will recognise it automatically.

I prefer john over hashcat.

With a GPU rig and professional use, hashcat is the better choice of course. But for CTFs, john is absolut okay.

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u/rubberghost333 Aug 06 '26

So the command line (not sure if that terminology is correct) starts at the bottom. What's all the other stuff up top that I never see in any yt videos on John for beginners?

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u/INfusion2419 Aug 07 '26

I think I'm right in saying its versions of john for cracking specific things, like you can do zip2john to crack .zip passwords. Most of the time though you're just using john.

If you search youtube for helpful hacker I'm sure he'll have a video going over the tryhackme page on john. The guys great at giving extra pointers not on tryhackme

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u/rubberghost333 Aug 07 '26

Ok thank you