John the Ripper Multithreaded Multicore How-To | Linux | John the Ripper must be compiled from source to enable multithreaded support as well to gain the added features of the jumbo patch. It’s not that hard and I’ll show you how! 1. Grab latest patched jumbo version that includes lots of goodies: $ wget http://openwall.com/john/g/john-1.7.9-jumbo-7.tar.bz2 2. Extract $ tar xvf john-1.7.9-jumbo-7.tar.bz2 3. Change to
